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Not handy for "human comprehension", but it has its reasons, and was more important back then when space was really scarce: https://unix.stackexchange.com/quest

• kristopolous 4y ago
  I'm not going to throw shade on earlier eras of computing. I study them intensely. However, I will throw shade on pegging things to those eras when everyone else has moved on. It'd be like having to grapple with near and far pointers still because that was a reality of the 16-bit world. I remember them, it was a brilliant system for the limitations but they've been gone for 25 or so years and good riddance. They were also bastards. Also when I see these things, it's like I've been in some kind of mythical suppressed memory therapy as these horrid events from my past come forth to haunt me again. One man's competency is another man's post traumatic disorder