If only a single floppy was installed MS-DOS was able to create a virtual floppy drive b: so you could use programs requiring two floppy drives or copy things between two floppies using a single drive, DOS would tell you when you had to exchange the floppies and even make sure you actually did it before allowing the program to overwrite or delete things on the wrong floppy...
I’ll summarise with a single comment. A & B drives are legacy for floppy drives.
Gen Zs have no clue what a floppy is.
@@my1vice 😄
No don't do this to me 😂
NGL That's actually accurate though
I don't think they even know what window XP used to look like 😅
@@EverythingInSummary Sorry mate. I’m the Super Super Summariser
I'm old.. I remember when my drive Z: was a 100mb Zip drive!
It was enough back in the day 🥺
$3400 for 10 MB hard drive.. And that thing sounded like a vacuum cleaner when it would spin up!
😂 exactly
Nothing Mysterious to people who are older than 30...
Indeed so, 💾
True 🙌
Video is meant to be for GenZs ig
I remember A: and B:. You would boot DOS on A: and optionally install it (and later Windows) on C:.
😯 I missed That in the video
Thanks for info 🙏
The question is, why windows still uses drive letters? Mac began with floppy drive too but you cannot find driver letter there.
Like This Comment To Give Homage To A And B
yawn
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You know youre old, when you still can remember yourself A: As the Floppy 😂
😂 true
Who is General Protection Fault and why is he reading my C drive?
Bro turn on your antivirus that could be lethal for your pc 😂
If only a single floppy was installed MS-DOS was able to create a virtual floppy drive b: so you could use programs requiring two floppy drives or copy things between two floppies using a single drive, DOS would tell you when you had to exchange the floppies and even make sure you actually did it before allowing the program to overwrite or delete things on the wrong floppy...
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What comes after Z drive?
aa
maybe
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Let me try to summarize that next 😂
nothing. it was rare to need more than 6 drive letters, but i guess if you needed 24..... use UNIX or something
@@anidnmeno I've seen my PC go till J
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wow i'm old
Same boat brother ✋
Excellent AI generated video.
Voice is the only part that's AI 😅
TL;DW 💾💾 drives
I was getting to it 😂