FAT file system now licensed by MS ?

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Fri Dec 12 11:38:23 2003

As concessions to IBM's desire for secrecy, Microsoft put locks
on some of the doors, window shades, etc.

They knew that they couldn't keep a project of that size completely
secret, so they named it "Project Commodore" as a bit of misdirection.

As for references, ...
I thought that I had read about it in one of the published
histories, but it is possible that I heard about it in
conversations with Bob Wallace. Bob was a very close friend
who was the tenth employee of Microsoft, and the first to
leave with substantial Microsoft stock. He died 9/2002 of
causes probably unrelated to Microsoft.

--
Grumpy Ol' Fred     		cisin_at_xenosoft.com
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Cini, Richard wrote:
> You know, I just re-read this post after a few days and I noticed that the
> project within Microsoft was "Project Commodore". I haven't read "Hard
> Drive" or the other Microsoft history books in a few years, but I don't
> recall ever seeing a reference to that project name.
>
> Any background on that?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> I don't know what became of the 8086 Stand-Alone BASIC.
> THEN Microsoft bought rights to that OS for "Project Commodore" (their IBM
> contract). (PC-DOS, MS-DOS)

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