Comment Re:What about FAT32 (Score 1) 192
I inferred from the little doc-thingy, that the patent had to do with having both a long and a short file name for each file. I had thought (no real experience with non-ms platforms back then) that other operating systems at the time could already handle long file name support, but weren't as concerned with backwards compatibility as microsoft, diminishing the need to maintain a short file name for each file.
Even-so the ancient concept of abbreviating a name with a nickname or alias seems like prior art to me.