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'''FAT16''' (a variety of FAT, which stands for File Allocation Table) is a filesystem adapted from [[FAT12]] at the time of the IBM AT computer, with more bits added per entry in order to support the increasing size of hard disks. It still had enough limitations that later revisions (by various device manufacturers) changed things in order to support more storage, such as using "logical sectors" bigger than the physical sectors so that the maximum number of addressable sectors in a 16 bit table entry contains more bytes. Ultimately, [[FAT32]] increased the bit size yet again to support even larger devices.

==Resources==
* [[wikipedia:File Allocation Table#Initial FAT16|Wikipedia]]
* [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/gg463080.aspx Microsoft EFI FAT32 File System Specification] (which also discusses earlier FAT versions)

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-'''FAT16''' (a variety of FAT, which stands for File Allocation Table) is a filesystem adapted from [[FAT12]] at the time of the IBM AT computer, with more bits added per entry in order to support the increasing size of hard disks. It still had enough limitations that later revisions (by various device manufacturers) changed things in order to support more storage, such as using "logical sectors" bigger than the physical sectors so that the maximum number of addressable sectors in a 16 bit table entry contains more bytes. Ultimately, [[FAT32]] increased the bit size yet again to support even larger devices.
+'''FAT16''' (a variety of [[FAT]], which stands for File Allocation Table) is a filesystem adapted from [[FAT12]] at the time of the IBM AT computer, with more bits added per entry in order to support the increasing size of hard disks. It still had enough limitations that later revisions (by various device manufacturers) changed things in order to support more storage, such as using "logical sectors" bigger than the physical sectors so that the maximum number of addressable sectors in a 16 bit table entry contains more bytes. Ultimately, [[FAT32]] increased the bit size yet again to support even larger devices.
 ==Resources==