Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 29 Nov 2000 18:17:23 -0600 | From | Jeff Epler <> |
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On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 04:27:04PM -0700, Ian S. Nelson wrote: > c) octals were invented for UNIX file permissions and not > programming
You must be joking. Read much history of computing? Or alt.folklore.computers? Octal was very natural for 18- and 36-bit machines, after all.
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