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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: big endian, little endian
- Date: 17 Apr 1996 09:13:11 -0700
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- In article <4l2ceg$ill@macondo.dmu.ac.uk>,
- Andrew Buckby <c4ab1@dmu.ac.uk> wrote:
-
- >It the way inwhich number are stored in bytes. I may be wrong but I think that
- >Intel stores the highest bit on the right and the lowest on the left, 68000 and
- >most UNIX machines store it the other way with the highest bit on the left.
- >
- >intel 64 32 16 8 4 2 1 others 1 2 4 8 16 32 64
-
- By left and right, of course, you mean ``lower address'' and ``higher
- address''. There is no connection between these and any concept of left and
- right. In some languages, conventions have it that you write right to left, or
- even top to bottom.
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