30 Aug
2006
30 Aug
'06
8:35 p.m.
At 06:09 PM 8/30/2006 -0500, you wrote:
I have heard of it, and know it's still used
on the Calculator program on Windoze (2K),
on the computers at work, but unlike Hex,
Dec and Binary I have no idea what it could
be used for, and why it would still be used
today. Anyone care to fill in the gaps, please?
I used Octal all the time when programming PDP/8e's in college. It's a
12-bit word machine, and things just kinda fit in Octal numbers.
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