DOS for networking?

Posted Apr 23, 2025 11:40 UTC (Wed) by jkingweb (subscriber, #113039)
In reply to: DOS for networking? by corbet
Parent article: Owen Le Blanc: creator of the first Linux distribution

Thanks, that was the insight I was missing. Did early Linux also have DOS filesystem support so you could easily transfer files back and forth locally, or were more gymnastics required?

Filesystem support

Posted Apr 23, 2025 13:08 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

I don't remember exactly when FAT filesystem support came in. I do remember, though, that GNU mtools was the lowest-friction way of dealing with diskettes and such for a long time.