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Fat 16 File System.

Creamy Goodness · 2008-11-30 20:08:33

Has anyone seen a book that has explained how this file system (or any of the FAT variants) work? I've scanned through numerous books in my college library but to no avail. Does anyone have any rec. to any books that would have it? I'd prefer books as it's for a project I'm doing and just don't want to be referencing some…

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Has anyone seen a book that has explained how this file system (or any of the FAT variants) work? I've scanned through numerous books in my college library but to no avail.

Does anyone have any rec. to any books that would have it? I'd prefer books as it's for a project I'm doing and just don't want to be referencing some website all the time.

Thanks.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table

File Allocation Table or FAT is a computer file system architecture originally purchased by Bill Gates

LOL Kudos QDOS

FAT is fairly primitve so have a look on line unless you want to look at system calls. BBC micro had a slightly more primitive file system in that it could only handle contiguous files but the OS was only 16KB in size. FAT used linked lists to fill fragmented free space.

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