M$ to license FAT

cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org
Tue Dec 9 19:17:33 UTC 2003


> On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:42:21PM -0500, cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org wrote:
> > What is VERY interesting is that none of the patents in question have to
> > do with the filesystem.  They ALL have to do with the way DOS 6 started
> 
> DOS provided long filename support?  Not that I remember.
> It all started with Windows 95.

Oops, my bad.  DOS 7.  (Which was not marketed under that name, though
if you looked for the VERSION, that's what you'd see...)
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