Re: Octal vs. Hex war o' death

[Jeff Epler]

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.

Jeff
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