Yeah, there's not much 4-bit-ness that's an aid to understanding what it is toda...

kps on Jan 27, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Things Every Hacker Once Knew

Yeah, there's not much 4-bit-ness that's an aid to understanding what it is today. One is that NUL, space, and '0' all have the low 4 bits zero because they're all in some sense ‘nothing’.