(05-03-2017, 12:28 PM)jkl Wrote: The umask() syscall was available in V7 UNIX.

You're right, I was mistaken, it's there: http://man.cat-v.org/unix_7th/2/umask

(05-03-2017, 12:28 PM)jkl Wrote: 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.)

I have no clue, I'm just basing it on what I've read.

Quote:In computing, a word is the natural unit of data used by a particular processor design. A word is a fixed-sized piece of data handled as a unit by the instruction set or the hardware of the processor. The number of bits in a word (the word size, word width, or word length) is an important characteristic of any specific processor design or computer architecture.

From what I've read PDP-11 had a word size of 16bits.