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<int-e> learn UML is short for "Umlaut". It powers H\xc3\xa4ckes\xc3\xb6.
author | HackEso <hackeso@esolangs.org> |
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date | Fri, 13 Jan 2023 02:06:12 +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.