“I wrote FAT on an airplane, for heaven's sake”
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“I wrote FAT on an airplane, for heaven's sake”
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Re: “I wrote FAT on an airplane, for heaven's sake”
#2Was it one of those planes that flies for six months?
Re: “I wrote FAT on an airplane, for heaven's sake”
#3And they got a patent for it? :D
Re: “I wrote FAT on an airplane, for heaven's sake”
#4Was it one of those planes that flies for six months?
Maybe a fine line between "writing" and "designing" and "prototyping". :-)
Re: “I wrote FAT on an airplane, for heaven's sake”
#5And they got a patent for it? :D
IANAL and I haven't read up on everything, but I thought it was just the long filename support that was patented. My understanding is that if you just support 8.3 names it's unencumbered.
Edit with further detail: The thing that's unique about LFN are the rename and delete behaviors. Lots of filesystems support more than 8.3 or multiple names for files (hardlinks) but I don't think any of them have alternate names for files that "stick" when you move them into another dir, or that behave somewhat cleanly when a non-LFN-aware OS does so.
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#7It took me a while to realize that it didn't mean writing code that ran aboard an airplane, but code that was written while on an airplane. Somehow the latter didn't even cross my mind as something that could be considered impressive.
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#8So the FAT story may be an exaggeration, but does Brandon Eich's Javascript-in-10-days (http://www.quora.com/JavaScript/In-which-10-days-of-May-did-...) still count as a "STFU-I'm-the-boss" feat?
Re: “I wrote FAT on an airplane, for heaven's sake”
#9So the FAT story may be an exaggeration, but does Brandon Eich's Javascript-in-10-days ( http://www.quora.com/JavaScript/In-which-10-days-of-May-did-... ) still count as a "STFU-I'm-the-boss" feat?
So that explains it...
;)
Re: “I wrote FAT on an airplane, for heaven's sake”
#10I'm old enough to know he didn't carry a computer on the plane....