[Coco] What would a CoCo successor have to have as a minimum?

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday, November 27, 2010 02:32:57 am Mike Pepe wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > 
> > FAT16/FAT32 in 8.3 format. Long file names are not supported. M$
> > proprietary and requires
> > royalties to M$.
> 
> Uh, since when? The VFAT read/write code has been freely available in
> Linux for, like, ever. Or maybe Linus already paid the royalty?
> 
> Nah.
> 
> -Mike
> 
Uh, Mike...  This went around 2 or 3 years ago, and the vfat driver was re-
written to get around the patent, so there is one mode of long filenames we 
did lose, but I don't think it was all of them, and subsequent patches have 
largely restored it without infringing.  I think, even my usb keys are 
reformatted ext3 these days.

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