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author | HackEso <hackeso@esolangs.org> |
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date | Wed, 17 Apr 2019 23:52:44 +0000 |
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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.