Yeah, octal was the convention on PDP-11 UNIX(TM). As I recall it wasn't until the move to 32 bit computers like the 68000 and no doubt the VAX preceding it th

Yeah, octal was the convention on PDP-11 UNIX(TM). As I recall it wasn't until the move to 32 bit computers like the 68000 and no doubt the VAX preceding it that UNIX moved to hexadecimal.