Reply to post: Re: Seriously!

The 'new' Microsoft? I still wouldn't touch them with a barge pole

Richard Plinston

Re: Seriously!

> That's of course not counting M$ still patent-trolling with the almost 50 years old FAT.

FAT12 in MS-DOS 1.x was 1981 which is only 35 years old, though 'Stand-Alone BASIC' was a year or two before that.

But the patent-trolling seems to be based on VFAT with the 'feature' of generating both 8.3 and long filenames. This is only 21 years old as it came out in Windows 95.

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