[lojban] Re: Gone 1 1/2 years...

[John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>]

robin scripsit:

> Hex is currently in vogue because we think binary computers are cool, 
> but there is nothing to make it inherently superior.  As a kid, I was a 
> big fan of octal.

As a programmer on the PDP-8 and PDP-11 computers, octal was what we used.

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