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| From | John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: Where do byte orders come from |
| Date | 2020-07-25 17:23 +0000 |
| Organization | Taughannock Networks |
| Message-ID | <rfhpqs$1leo$3@gal.iecc.com> (permalink) |
| References | <79c7d28d-61ea-4927-bed3-2cf86e0d7911@googlegroups.com> <87r1t0kcq2.fsf@mothra.home> <7385ab1f-c41d-4f22-8969-7cfbe234b775o@googlegroups.com> <rfh36i$jsc$2@dont-email.me> |
In article <rfh36i$jsc$2@dont-email.me>, Gareth Evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> wrote: >But am I right in remembering that the PDP11 had a mix of Big >and Little Endian; the basic processor being Little but some of >the floating point options being Big? Yes, some of the multi-word arithmetic formats were middle-endian. They straigtened it all out on the VAX, but the fact that it was so hard to make things consistently little-endian tells us that the arguement that it's more "natural" is silly. -- Regards, John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly
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