Alex Wulms wrote:
> However, on 8-bits and on 16-bits systems, octals are not so convenient to
> use, for obvious reasons.
> 

If you are reading sectors and you see each byte as octal you can read
Z80 ml much more easilly.
For example with 101 then you can see directly that it means "ld a,b"
The entire Z80 is verry octal based in its opcode structure.

David Heremans

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