Glass Ceiling

Source: Windows 95

As you can see from my bitmaps (sorry about the size, I don't have a conversion utility handy right now), there is the basic "duh" error. Of COURSE there's another level above, and it is quite possible to go to that level. However, you cannot use the backspace key or hit the "up folder" button to get there. In fact, by going to that level, you'd be traveling from a virtual folder to a physical folder. But the physical folder is actually a virtual folder in that it is the base for the entire system... that is, depending on who's logged on at the time. For computers with multiple user preferences, the desktop is in different places. Windows NT 4 helps by making an All Users desktop, but it's still not exactly what should be going on. Then again, I may be biased by UNIX who makes the entire system into one directory structure, whereas in DOS you have so many drives. But if you consider that UNIX's / doesn't move around (as far as I know, I could be quite wrong), then it's really a matter of principle, not a real problem, per se...

However, it'll make for interesting debate, I'm sure. But the error message (boy, did I digress) was the inability to go up to the top level. I guess it's a glass ceiling or something like that...

Submitted by: James A. Pyrich

So what’s higher than up …?

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