I believe that the Comodore 64 came after the IBM PC. I understand that Microsoft used the FAT file system on Altair Disk Basic in 1977. This would predate the IBM PC by a few years. It would also predate the Comodore Pet and VIC-20. If memory serves me correctly I believe that I saw an 8 bit NEC computer in the late 70's that used the FAT file system.
Peter On 2/9/06, bogi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In a way, it is not good news, but look at this coin from the other side. If > Linux distros would not have fat file system, like it is a big deal, Any > company doing the switch can safely transfer all their data into an ext3 or a > reiserFS, no problems there, we have had problems with the ntfs for a long > time , it is just about time to stop using that one too. Linux hardly uses > fat, the biggest users are digital cameras and usb flashdrives, converting > the flashdrives to ext2 (less overhead) is easy even today, for the camera, > my suggestion is, they start manufacturing their devices using one of the > many free/oss file systems available starting now, and provide windows with > the appropriate device drivers, like they used to do until now. Problem > solved. If the patent is about using a file allocation bitmap to allocate > space for data on a storage device :-) Then i think the patent will be > overurned by some more appropriate filesystem rights owner. There are plenty > of filesystems pre-dating dos and Ms that use an allocation bitmap, in fact > one that springs to mind, is the C64 DOS, Is very similar to the ms-fat file > system, the main difference does seem to be the c64 dos uses track 18 for the > fat storage (and they called it fat too) and ms chose to use track 0. Now C64 > pre-dates even the IBM PC for that matter. > Anything before that would be mainframe stuff. And they all use an allocation > bitmap to register disk/storage usage. > > Cheers > Szemir > > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
