Exciting debate! Shortcut... gimmick or not!?
It does not really exist its an illusion created by virtual reality, so desktop shortcut is a not an accurate term, memory is written on random sectors of the hard-disk which over time gets fragmented, so in virtual reality nothing really has a constant location, it searches the bits to find the right program.
Tut, a simple yes would have sufficed as a response to my question about blithering.
sorry to have to disagree with you there, Os - the way your question was phrased did not permit a yes or no answer, since it offered two alternatives to chose from.
(can?t help it, am German... I would say, your question didn?t NEED any answer.