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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: FAA To Finally Ditch Floppy Disks & Win-95
Date: 21 Jun 2025 19:30:53 GMT
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On Sat, 21 Jun 2025 06:50:53 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

> rbowman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
> 
>> On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 08:36:57 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>
>>> Programmers use base-16.
>>
>> And 2, 8, and 10.  ARM processors are bringing bit twiddling back into
>> style.
> 
> Dang, I forgot about base 2!
> 
> Base 8 is kind of annoying, you know.

For some processors octal works well for opcodes. Then there is chmod and 
friends.