Thursday, July 20th, 2006, 7:58 am
The Correct Abstraction Model of a Computer
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NE thing that keeps striking me as surprising is that people’s habits supersede all logic. I will provide an example from technology.
How can anybody argue that drive A for floppy disk and C for primary hard-drive is more rational than the rhetorical and self-explanatory /dev/floppy/ (for floppy device) and /dev/hd0/? This comes the prove that it is all just a matter of habits. People refuse to accept new things that they are not already used to, irrespective of their reasoning. In fact, the hierarchy of a computer (abstraction) in the *nix world is far more robust. It may also be easier for a new user to ‘digest’ and everything stems from the root of a single tree.
