The mainframes of the 60's and 70's all used 6-bit characters (and
often different encodings for the non alphanumeric characters).  So
the Unix folks, including me, had experience with octal long before
Dec.

Steve

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From: "Warren Toomey" <wkt@tuhs.org>

 Something I've been meaning to ask for a while: why Unix and octal on
the
 PDP-11? Because of the DEC documentation?


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