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<fizzie> slbd hello-world-in-any-language//s|hw/|${HACKENV-/hackenv}/hw/|g
author | HackEso <hackeso@esolangs.org> |
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date | Sun, 17 Nov 2019 01:26:58 +0000 |
parents | 272663b31668 |
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Block devices are a concession made in Unix to make raw hard disks and magnetic tape have a similar interface to regular files and terminals. Since magnetic tapes can't write individual bytes, only entire blocks, the interface isn't exactly the same, thus the dreaded dd obs= option was born.