Gary Kindall had a great one.  http://www.dcast.vbox.co.uk/cpm.html.

> On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 03:20:56PM -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
>> EFI requires a FAT-12 formatted FLASH on your mainboard. Licensed IP 
>> from M$. As is the PCOFF format the binaries use.
>> 
>> need I say more?
> 
> FAT-12?  Shesh.  You know, I wonder why a more reasonable filesystem format
> can't be found for things like this.  I mean, it doesn't have to be fancy
> (I've often thought that a simple extent-based filesystem with an extent-
> based directory structure would be sufficient for, e.g., 9fat), but it doesn't
> have to be FAT, either.
> 
>       - Dan C.

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