MarkAssPandi (@MarkAssPandi)

@jded Apparently "Whilst this choice may seem counterintuitive in modern times when the four bit hexadecimal notation is generally preferred because register sizes and address widths in computers are almost always powers of two and bytes have standardized to be octets, Unix was originally developed for the PDP-7, which uses an 18-bit CPU and a six-bit character code, making the three bit octal notation more desirable. "