Comments by "Gorilla Disco" (@gorilladisco9108) on "Ask Leo!" channel.

  1. FAT has been around for 40 years, and I'm sure it will be around for another 40 years. The reason is it's kept updated, and the updated version is an expansion of the old version, a.k.a. backward compatibility. So the original format is still inside the current format. Backward compatibility was really a feature that let us use old data and programs, and it's a hallmark of IBM - Microsoft collaboration (you don't have that kind of treatment with your old Apple products).
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  2. The only problem is to find the player for it.
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  3.  @freddieclark  The point is, mine is older. Ha!
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  4.  @freddieclark  My DVD from 2006 is still read fine, tits and al .. I mean, every single bit I recorded on it.
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  5.  @chinesepopsongs00  The thing about backward compatibility is access to a ready market. Adding FAT functionality will cost Microsoft .. how much? All I know, Linux has it for free, sooo ...
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  6.  @WATCHINGTHEWATCHERS  Of course it will. There are software formats and hardware formats. Because of Moore Law, the cost of software formats (FAT, NTFS, exFAT, etc.) are diminishing toward zero. Hardware formats though, have to be manufactured. If for example, nobody manufacture cassette tape player anymore, it will be hard to read what is in it. That's where the need to "refresh" came from. From my own experience, the data inside my IDE hard drive are still readable after 20 years, but there are no more motherboard that support IDE. Thankfully, the cost of IDE to SATA converter is just a dollar or so.
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