On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 10:15:06PM +0100, Daniel Egger wrote: > On 05.01.2005, at 18:27, Dave Neary wrote: > > >Before people get high-horsey about this, consider that 90% of digital > >cameras > >have embedded DOS as their OS, and are thus unable to generate files > >which are > >not 8.3. > > I don't think it is pretty safe to assume that FAT support > means that anything close to DOS could be the operating > system of a camera; for one DOS has too many limitation with > regards to linear addressing of memory to be useful for such > a device and second you'll have a hard time finding a DOS > implementation outside of x86 CPUs and believe it or not but > those tend to be the worst choice of processor for battery > powered devices. > canon rebel uses DOS. carol
