bitquabit - Zombie Operating Systems and ASP.NET MVC
http://blog.bitquabit.com/2009/06/12/zombie-operating-systems-and-aspnet-mvc/

That is M$ backwards compatibility for you! LOL.

Funny, and sad... "And that is why, in 2009, when developing in Microsoft .NET 3.5 for ASP.NET MVC 1.0 on a Windows 7 system, you cannot include /com\d(\..*)?, /lpt\d(\..*)?, /con(\..*)?, /aux(\..*)?, /prn(\..*)?, or /nul(\..*)? in any of your routes."

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