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<fizzie> ` learn \'A snake is just a directed vertical bridge in the negative orientation.\' # just to complement the entry on ladder
author | HackEso <hackeso@esolangs.org> |
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date | Mon, 03 Aug 2020 18:01:39 +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.