Re: FAA To Finally Ditch Floppy Disks & Win-95

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:
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Programmers use base-16.

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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.