view wisdom/block device @ 12292:d51f2100210c draft

<kspalaiologos> `` cat <<<"asmbf && bfi output.b" > /hackenv/ibin/asmbf
author HackEso <hackeso@esolangs.org>
date Thu, 02 Jan 2020 15:38:21 +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.