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Re:The structure of the special type of DOS files called dir... by tambourine_man on Monday February 25, 2019 @02:20PM (#19248513)
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?

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Re:The structure of the special type of DOS files called dir... by Someone on Monday February 25, 2019 @03:09PM (#19248938)
Wrote, not designed (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20131008-00/?p=...)

(But it isn’t true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#Original...)

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Re:The structure of the special type of DOS files called dir... by 13of40 on Monday February 25, 2019 @02:43PM (#19248700)
Don'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.
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