If you do a copy command in a command prompt to CON, it will copy to the console. If you had a file or directory named con, the system wouldn't know which you were trying to copy to.
So, just to keep the problem from surfacing, device names are off limits for file or directories. Kind of like not being able to use keywords as variable names when programming.
So, just to keep the problem from surfacing, device names are off limits for file or directories. Kind of like not being able to use keywords as variable names when programming.