FAT file system now licensed by MS ?

On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Vintage Computer Festival wrote: It has a link for "Learn More About the FAT File System" which takes you to : http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/tech/fathist.asp which is entitled "FAT File System: The Story Behind the Innovation" which starts off with "December 3, 2003 "The FAT file system was one of the first technologies developed by Microsoft. In 1976, Bill Gates created the initial version of FAT during a short hotel stay in Albuquerque, N.M. Intel incorporated FAT technology in an operating system it developed for the Intel 8086 chip. Microsoft purchased the rights to this system and then recoded the FAT file system as part of the first version of the Microsoft MS-DOS operating system." and then proceeds to blabber on about the file nickname (*) system recently added (Windoze 98) THAT is the least useful "history" that I have ever seen about it! "Bill gates created...Microsoft purchased the rights"???? and WHAT Intel OS was it? I don't know where billg got the linked list idea from. Patterson of Seattle Computer Products shared a booth with Microsoft at the West Coast Computer Faire, and was "inspired" by the use of it in the NEC or NCR "Microsoft Stand Alone BASIC" and used it in QDOS, which MICROS~1 bought, and resold (after completion and a few changes) as PC-DOS/MS-DOS. (*) It is NOT "long filenames". If it were, then they would stand alone, and be indexed BY the "long filenames". Instead, ALL indexing is done by the 8.3 name. EVERY file has an 8.3 name that is used for all access. In addition the user can refer to a file by a "nickname", that is then used to FIND the 8.3 filename. The "long filenames" are a SUPPLEMENTARY added name, and therefore a "nickname".