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<kspalaiologos> le//rn bfasm //The brainfuck assembler. Documentation and samples: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KrzysztofSzewczyk/asmbf/master/doc/bfasm.doc
author | HackEso <hackeso@esolangs.org> |
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date | Wed, 23 Oct 2019 17:53:30 +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.