Re: Octal vs. Hex war o' death

2000-11-29 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> [snip a boring troll] Please, don't insult my mother in law. She's not that boring ;P Igmar - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Octal vs. Hex war o' death

2000-11-29 Thread Alexander Viro
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Ian S. Nelson wrote: > I'm sure this is a religious issue... but I'm going to suggest it > anyways because I spent a few minutes on it. [snip a boring troll] Could you come up with something more, erm, amusing? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: Octal vs. Hex war o' death

2000-11-29 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Jeff Epler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > 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

Re: Octal vs. Hex war o' death

2000-11-29 Thread 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 - To unsu

Octal vs. Hex war o' death

2000-11-29 Thread Ian S. Nelson
I'm sure this is a religious issue... but I'm going to suggest it anyways because I spent a few minutes on it. So I was hacking away trying to get my embedded box to run the correct stuff after booting up and I ran into an octal speed bump. You see, all throughout rd.c there are these hex consta