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		sliverstorm on Oct 10, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “I wrote FAT on an airplane, for heaven's sake” Odds are Gates didn't write the complete code, probably more of the blueprint. Also worth noting- the original implementation of FAT was pretty basic/fundamental. Could one even call it an application?

zik on Oct 11, 2013 | [–]

According to Wikipedia:

> The original FAT file system (or FAT structure, as it was called initially) was designed and coded by Marc McDonald,[9] based on a series of discussions between McDonald and Bill Gates.

dboat on Oct 11, 2013 | [–]

yeah because writing a filesystem was pretty trivial back then.

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