[ros-general] Re: Interest in ReactOS

[Martin Fuchs]

> >   I read a
> > couple of opinions which disliked drive letters.
> >
> >  When time goes by, we shuld think of a nice alternative 
>  
>  surely if we are aiming for 100% M$ NT compatibility, we have no choice
>  but to go with what is already there. as far as programs are concerned,
>  they should believe that they are running on an M$ os. loads of registry
>  entries and .ini files refer to C:, D: etc. 
I could imagine using UNC paths like "\\mybox\mnt\cdrom\setup.exe" anywhere as
replacement for drive letters. Perhaps one has to remain a single, small C: partition for
programs, which don't understand to handle this. But you could get rid of mounting any
of your otherpartitions at a drive letter.

However drive letters are not bad always. They can be used as shortcuts to deeper nested
directories. By the way: XP also goes somewhat into this direction. You can mount
partitions at any (NTFS) directory you like.

Regards,

    Martin