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From: John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Killer price on a mini PC
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On 29 Sep 2026 00:10:41 GMT
rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

> It probably goes back to the IBM 360 or PDP-11 but the network byte
> order is defined in RFC1700 as big-endian, or it might have been a
> coin toss. 

System/360, I presume; DEC's multiple-of-eight-bit architectures were,
IIRC, all little-endian (less some weirdness with 32-bit values in the
-11 - and the Alpha is officially bi, but I dunno how much actual use
was made of that.)