Frank Peters <frank.pet...@comcast.net> write: > That's the beauty of Open Source. Commercial development would have > killed off FAT because of its low popularity, but Open Source maintains > FAT capability because it is something that *should* be available, if > only to allow some small group to tinker with ancient systems.
Nah, Microsoft kept and would have kept FAT, not to mention COMMAND.COM. IBM systems, traditionally, kept vestiges of stuff from the Pleistocene, all of it carefully documented.
