A hard disk file system (file allocation table) developed by Microsoft for DOS. DOS, OS/2, Windows 3.x, Windows 95/98 and NT can use hard disk partitions formatted with the FAT16 file system.
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A hard disk file system (file allocation table) developed by Microsoft for DOS. DOS, OS/2, Windows 3.x, Windows 95/98 and NT can use hard disk partitions formatted with the FAT16 file system.