Not surprising. Gates and Microsoft didn't develop DOS. They bought
it.
On Nov 2, 2005, at 20:27, Moffatt, Chris wrote:
It is a reserved word from the DOS days (like "prn") I think it
stands for
"console"
Actually, you can't create a folder named:
CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6,
COM7, COM8,
COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9
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Subject: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!
An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named as
"con".
This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable...
At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer
why this
happened!
Try it out yourself...
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