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[FAT32] was the next evolutionary step from [FAT16]. Bigger disks were needed, so [FAT32] expanded the amount of space it could address once again. Also Microsoft was getting hassled by Apple and other operating systems about it's 8.3 charactor filenames so it added support for a file to have a long and a short filename. Filenames can be up to 256 charactors long, although the path can still only be 63 charactors long. Everyone decided this was a kludge, it barely fixed any of the problems, and introduced new ones. It still had the notorious [FAT], and still had it at the beginning of the disk[1]. [FAT32] had no permission models or anything. So, finally, Microsoft moved everyone over to using [NTFS] with Windows 2000. [1]: Had microsoft placed it at the middle of the disk, then it would have reduced the average amount of time taken to seek to it from either end of the disk from n to n/2, but nooo...
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