Re:Why is the DOS path character "\"? (2005)
by HeckFeck on Friday February 26, 2021 @11:10AM
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If I'm not mistaken, the Win32 API is actually a subsystem to the NT kernel. You can call the kernel itself a layer below with functions beginning with 'nt*'.
Hardware is actually mapped as an object namespace, which is presented to the user as the drive letters. This was exposed with Windows XP booting in safe mode; during the boot process it would print file paths as object paths, not drive paths.
Much as I'm more in the *nix way now, there's plenty of curiosities to explore and tinker in Windows.
Hardware is actually mapped as an object namespace, which is presented to the user as the drive letters. This was exposed with Windows XP booting in safe mode; during the boot process it would print file paths as object paths, not drive paths.
Much as I'm more in the *nix way now, there's plenty of curiosities to explore and tinker in Windows.