wrote:
> Octal is ancient, and the only time I can think of that I've ever used
> it is with the chmod command.
I resemble that remark. use of octal was common on 36 bit computers (six
octal chars fit nicely). The PDP-10 that Kernigan and Ritchie wished for
when they invented Unix was 36 bits, so octal was natural.
Back when I was young, I used those machines so much that I knew all the
character codes in octal.
Those machines were usually 30 feet long and cost a million bucks.
They were slower than a modern 7250 that costs about $100 bucks.
--
Pat Farrell
http://www.pfarrell.com/
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