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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!sdd.hp.com!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!ai-lab!wheat-chex!cracraft
  2. From: cracraft@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Stuart Cracraft)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
  4. Subject: Intel 80386 vs. Sparc endianness/bits/bytes
  5. Message-ID: <25846@life.ai.mit.edu>
  6. Date: 25 Jul 92 14:30:53 GMT
  7. Sender: news@ai.mit.edu
  8. Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
  9. Lines: 6
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  12. Could someone summarize whether the i386 or the Sparc is big-endian
  13. and what the byte/bit ordering is? Please send me a small note with
  14. this information rather than the comp.unix.wizards list.
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  16. Stuart
  17.