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This is why Windows still uses C: drives — and almost never A: or B:

Your computer has probably never touched a floppy disk. There's a good chance you haven't either. And yet, sitting right there in File Explorer is a drive letter that only exists because of them. Not ...
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Windows lives on the C: drive, and the reason it's not called A: or B: goes back to the 1970s

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...