Probably, if the formatting had not changed much, the interface could have been even older.
The disk formatting interface in Windows operating systems has not changed for three decades, tells developer Dave Plummer. Dave knows this because he was the one who created this interface.
Plummer recalls that it was necessary to create a new interface during the development of Windows NT. It was not possible to simply transfer the formatting interface from Windows 95 due to a number of significant differences.
It is noteworthy that the interface created by Plummer was considered temporary. It was assumed that at some point it would be replaced with something more elegant.
Dave Plummer
developer
I opened VC++ 2.0 and used the resource editor to create a simple vertical list of everything you need to select [для форматирования]. It wasn't very elegant, but this version would suffice until an elegant interface appeared.
This was about 30 years ago, but this dialog box is still the same temporary solution that I did on Thursday morning.
At the same time, Dave explained why the maximum size of a FAT file system volume cannot exceed 32 gigabytes. According to Plummer, there is no particular reason: it is an arbitrary number, but it just so happens that it still exists.
Recently, Microsoft has been quite active in changing the interfaces of classic Windows applications like Notepad, but nothing has been announced about reworking the disk formatting interface.
This is interesting