"Jack Strangio" wrote in message
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The original FAT system was restricted to about 32MB.

Not so!
DOS 1.0 supported single-sided 8 sector/track diskettes (160KB)
DOS 1.1 supported double-sided 9 sectors/track diskettes (360KB)
DOS 2.0 supported 10MB hard disks and subdirectories (PC-XT)
DOS 3.0 supported FAT-16 and 32MB partitions (PC-AT)

There was also the choice of CP/M for the original IBM PC - can't remember
what filesystem that supported.

Sadly, I was there ...

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LSR