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I’ve heard once that the design of FAT was so straightforward that one would be hard pressed to enforce any patents on it. And that Gates designed it on an airp
by tambourine_man 8y ago
I’ve heard once that the design of FAT was so straightforward that one would be hard pressed to enforce any patents on it. And that Gates designed it on an airplane trip.
Does anyone know if any of this is true?
- 13of40 8y agoDon't forget that DOS 1.0 didn't have subdirectories or long file names, so most of the complexity in the article comes from years of shoehorning new functionality into it.
- Someone 8y agoWrote, not designed (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20131008-00/?p=3003 https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20131008-00/?p=...) (But it isn’t true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#Original_8-bit_FAT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#Original...)