Re: Octal vs. Hex war o' death

Jeff Epler
2000-11-30T00:48:47Z

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