The upper letters have also lost their use with UNC paths. in the 2000’s and 2010’s, we had so many drive letters at my workplaces. I hardly used any of them, but they still mapped a bunch by default for departments that still relied on them. Now they’re on NAS drives or SharePoint, which you can just access without mapping. I just pinned the ones I use in File Explorer so they’re there but not “mapped”.
I still have an F: drive on my current company machine for some reason. It used to be a network home directory backup, but after OneDrive, I’m not sure where it points or why it still exists. Because I’m the sort of person who sees a YouTube video about what happened to Novell Netware and immediately click play, I recently learned that F: was the typical home drive letter for Novell Netware, with company/departmental share drives starting with G: or later. (https://support.novell.com/docs/Tids/Solutions/10027779.html) I remember in the early 2000’s people still calling those drives and the login screen “Novell” even though it was Windows NT and NT shares by that point.
The upper letters have also lost their use with UNC paths. in the 2000’s and 2010’s, we had so many drive letters at my workplaces. I hardly used any of them, but they still mapped a bunch by default for departments that still relied on them. Now they’re on NAS drives or SharePoint, which you can just access without mapping. I just pinned the ones I use in File Explorer so they’re there but not “mapped”.
I still have an F: drive on my current company machine for some reason. It used to be a network home directory backup, but after OneDrive, I’m not sure where it points or why it still exists. Because I’m the sort of person who sees a YouTube video about what happened to Novell Netware and immediately click play, I recently learned that F: was the typical home drive letter for Novell Netware, with company/departmental share drives starting with G: or later. (https://support.novell.com/docs/Tids/Solutions/10027779.html) I remember in the early 2000’s people still calling those drives and the login screen “Novell” even though it was Windows NT and NT shares by that point.