[Courses] [FS] Lesson 1

[Emma Jane Hogbin]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 12:00:07AM +0100, Meredydd wrote:
> URL:		http://www.linuxchix.org/content/courses/filesystem/Lesson1.html

"For one thing, tying things so strongly to the hardware doesn't do you any
favours when ambiguity comes along. For example - C: generally means "the
first hard disk on the first bus". But what does that mean? If you have
both IDE and SCSI busses, which one is "first"? And what if you have more
than two floppy disks (A: and B:)? The answer, as anyone who's tried it
will tell you, is that the operating system gets confused, inconsistent,
and arbitrary. Not good qualities for computers, whose greatest advantage
is consistency and determinism."

What does "bus" actually mean?

emma

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