Windows Namespaces
 
  • Rooted in the manky DOS ways
  • c:\, d:\

  • Now over-engineered
  • ... but still manky

  • NT has an internal unified namespace
  • \\

  • DOS emulation mapped in
  • \\Win32\...\c:\blah

  • Not a whole lot different, however

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