FAT16 (English, noun)
expansion: FAT16 (uncountable)
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glosses: The version of the FAT series of file systems which uses a 16-bit file allocation table.
The original version of this file system, storing both the number of (real or virtual) disk sectors and the number of sector clusters in a volume as 16-bit integers.
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tags: uncountable
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glosses: The version of the FAT series of file systems which uses a 16-bit file allocation table.
FAT16B, the version of this file system storing the number of clusters in a volume as a 16-bit integer but using a 32-bit integer to represent the total number of sectors in a volume, allowing for larger volume and file sizes.
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