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We have A: C: D: in windows ,then what's about missing B: ?
Why we compute system time from jan-1-1970..any particular reason?
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We have A: C: D: in windows ,then what's about missing B: ?
Why we compute system time from jan-1-1970..any particular reason?
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1. B is for a second floppy
2. 1970 something - a recognized birthday of Unix
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The letters being drives doesn't mean anything. I've seen computers where the hard drive is I: and the card reader takes A through D, etc, etc...
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(I can search google)
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by default, A: and B: letters are reserved for Floppy Drives, next letters are for Harddisk Partitions and Last letter for CD/DVD drives.
you can assign any driver letter to any partition or Device though.
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Regarding the time, check this out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_epochFlies of a particular kind, i.e. time-flies, are fond of an arrow.
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Regarding the B as being a second floppy, it's just because of how things were done back in the DOS days! I remember a computer we used to have that had a 3.5" and 5.25" floppy, the 3.5" was A: and 5.25" was B. Most computers back then had 2 floppies, just like a lot of computers now a days come with 2 optical drives: CD and DVD. Soon all optical drives will be DVD, seeing as that's how 3.5" floppies took over for the 5.25"!
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Noooooo... we dont have A:, C: or anything else. Its /, /mnt, /media/... etc.
Drive C: is for losers...
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Originally Posted by Roxoff Noooooo... we dont have A:, C: or anything else. Its /, /mnt, /media/... etc. Drive C: is for losers... it's true....
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