In , on 08/01/04 
   at 02:30 PM, os2userl{at}wpusa.dynip.com typed:

>I assume your are refering to 8" floppies? If so then the first for
>micros  used the OS from Digital Research (Gary Gildale) CPM then came
>the early  releases of msdos v1.25 for which I have the source code
>somewhere that also  supported 8" and 5.25" floppies and these are FAT
>formats.

The history of the 8" goes back to before micros.  It was originally
developed within IBM for various uses (microcode loads among other things)
- one of the developers whose name was Shugart split from IBM and the rest
is history....
 
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