On 2015-10-14 14:42, Anton Aylward wrote:
Yes, having huge drives means that most people using PCs for desktop think it simpler to have one drive; many don't even partition that. Certainly Windows did not have a heritage of putting user data on a different spindle or partition!
On the contrary. On Windows 3, it was trivial to place "Documents" on another "disk". It is rather difficult on W7, at least as a global setting for all users. Back on MsDOS times, on computers with two floppies, as was mine, it was also typical to have the system on on one disk, perhaps "the" application, and the data files on the other. And the system/application disk could have the write tab in disable position, thus impeding damage by virii. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)