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    [–] stoy@lemmy.zip 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    There was an old virus that would copy your FAT table to ram, erase it from disk, and preset you with a slot machine UI where you would gamble to get the FAT back, if you won, great, the virus would write the FAT back to the drive, if not, you lost everything.

    Rebooting without playing meant loosing everything.

    [–] RustySharp@programming.dev 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    FAT Table

    Can I just pay? I can go to the ATM Machine and enter my PIN Number

    [–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 hours ago

    Despite having Table in the name, FAT isn't a table, but rather uses a table, and FAT itself is a filesystem. Thus, it's different from a machine with "machine" being in the name or a number with "number" in the name, and it seems entirely reasonable to refer to the crucial index table in the FAT filesystem as the "FAT table"

    [–] felbane@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

    You forget that FAT stands for "File Allocation Travesty."

    [–] khannie@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago