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		toolslive 15 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z There's special place in hell for the inventor of drive names. IIRC, it's something that was nicked from CP/M.

rwmj 15 days ago [–]

Tim Patterson certainly copied it from CP/M and may not have been aware of anything predating it, but according to Wikipedia drive letters have quite a long history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_letter_assignment

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