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jkl
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Quote:One of the application of masking in Unix is `umask` which appeared first in the version 8th of UNIX.

The umask() syscall was available in V7 UNIX.

Quote:A CPU does operations on words

Depends. If I'm not mistaken, the PDP-11 was character-oriented (just with really large characters) which was one of the major reasons to rewrite the still young language B into C. (Please correct me on that.)

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Bits And Words - by venam - 05-03-2017, 04:32 AM
RE: Bits And Words - by venam - 05-03-2017, 04:39 AM
RE: Bits And Words - by jkl - 05-03-2017, 12:28 PM
RE: Bits And Words - by venam - 06-03-2017, 01:19 AM
RE: Bits And Words - by jkl - 06-03-2017, 05:10 AM