For what are the Windows A:\ and B:\ drives used?

Re:For what are the Windows A:\ and B:\ drives used? by seabee on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @08:59AM (#2096125)

Don't forget the ASSIGN utility which created new device roots from one (or more!) existing folders, or with deferrment i.e. when assigning Fonts: to df0:Fonts, the OS remembers the disk referred to, and will ask you for that specific disk if you remove it and subsequently access Fonts:. It made working with floppies a lot more pleasant.

SUBST on Windows is similar, but with 1/10th of the power and just single drive letters.

I miss the Amiga too, but it simply never kept up the pace.

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Re:For what are the Windows A:\ and B:\ drives used? by rbanffy on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @09:12AM (#2096161)

I think it was overcome by PCs when they started offering VGA graphics. The Amiga architecture was much more "intimate" with video generation than PCs and, thus, were not so easy upgrade as newer hardware became available.

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Re:For what are the Windows A:\ and B:\ drives used? by trezor on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @09:25AM (#2096206)

Oh I do remember, and I was notorious for ASSIGNing things to my RAM: drive for performance-reasons once I got a 10MB memory upgrade to my Amiga 1200.

I just thought it might be slightly out of scope for the discussion at large, so I decided not to include it ;)

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