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FAT32 - uses 32-bit allocation table to overcome size limitations on the 16-bit system.
Above 500 MB, FAT16 required cluster sizes that started to induce large amounts of wasted slack space and performance lagged.
Introduced with Windows 95 OSR2, mainstreamed with Windows 98.
Long filename support provided as a horrendous kludge in a sequence of directory entry structures.
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