M$ to license FAT

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Tue Dec 9 22:53:03 UTC 2003


Taavi Burns wrote:
> 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.
> 

Wans't W95 just a pretty shell on DOS 6?  ;-)


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