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<int-e> learn Kingoffrance is what happens when you cross zzo38 with a conspiracy theorist.
author HackEso <hackeso@esolangs.org>
date Sun, 26 Jan 2020 02:32:48 +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.