Quotes About Octal

Seymour Cray, designer of the Cray line of supercomputers, was among the greatest. He is said once to have toggled an entire operating system of his own design into a computer of his own design through its front-panel switches. In octal. Without an error. And it worked. Real Programmer macho supremo.

Counting in octal is just likst counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs.

Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal, if you don't use your thumbs.

Since their base number system is octal, the range for the comparatives is between one and seven.