Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 2nd Jul 2009 16:17 UTC, submitted by lemur2
The FAT file system is the file system used by MS-DOS and earlier versions of Windows. It's a relatively simple and straightforward file system, supported by just about any operating system, making it the favoured file system on memory cards and the like. FAT is an ECMA and ISO standard, but these only apply for FAT12 and FAT16 without support for long file names, and therein lies a problem.
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2006-10-08
I think you're talking about the programmers who made GeoWorks Ensemble. As far as I remember, even though it ran under DOS, it allowed you to create files with long file names. Compatibility was done through a "translation file" per directory that made the long file names appear in GEOS, while in DOS, they were simple 8.3 filenames. Keep in mind that this product was released years before MICROS~1 could do something similar with file names.
In consequence, you can easily conclude how the quality of the software is. Because there's no need to make high quality software - because you can always compensate bad quality by aggressive marketing and forcing law suits for everyone who does better - it won't be done anymore. This attitude seems to be taught to novice programmers. Even worse, coding skills and "programmer's intelligence" don't seem to count as much as the guy who makes the pretty figures and the TV commercials to sell crappy software to the masses.