Comment Re:What about FAT32 (Score 2) 192
scratch that, VFAT was introduced with NT3.5 (September 21, 1994), so the patent was probably filed for in anticipation of the NT3.5 release.
from the same wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table
OS/2 added long filename support to FAT using extended attributes (EA) before the introduction of VFAT; thus, VFAT long filenames are invisible to OS/2, and EA long filenames are invisible to Windows, therefore experienced users of both operating systems would have to manually rename the files.
perhaps that was taken as prior art?