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<kspalaiologos> addquote <lf94> kspalaiologos: yes, it\'s much more enjoyable sitting in #esoteric than chiselling 99 bottles of beer into a rock.
author HackEso <hackeso@esolangs.org>
date Thu, 24 Oct 2019 19:25:02 +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.