From: Jeff Epler <jepler@inetnebr.com>
To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Octal vs. Hex war o' death
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 18:17:23 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001129181723.A2765@potty.housenet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A2590C8.34459BF9@echostar.com>
In-Reply-To: <3A2590C8.34459BF9@echostar.com>
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-11-30 0:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-29 23:27 Ian S. Nelson
2000-11-30 0:17 ` Jeff Epler [this message]
2000-11-30 0:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-30 0:39 ` PROBLEM: do_try_free_pages failed for python Bob Tanner
2000-11-30 16:06 ` Rik van Riel
2000-11-30 16:29 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-30 0:43 ` Octal vs. Hex war o' death Alexander Viro
2000-11-30 4:07 ` Igmar Palsenberg
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