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- From: pj@sam.wpd.sgi.com (Paul Jackson)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: big + little endian (was: Comparison of Alpha, MIPS ..)
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 01:44:51 GMT
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Research & Development
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- References: <1992Dec29.044012.1@cc.curtin.edu.au> <3623363@zl2tnm.gen.nz> <28164@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
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- In article <28164@dog.ee.lbl.gov>, torek@horse.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek) writes:
- |> 01101001 may mean `105' (big-endian) or `150' (little-endian)
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- Big and little endian refer to the order of bytes within words,
- not to the order of bits within bytes.
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- I have followed this up to just comp.arch, not the other groups
- for dec, sgi or hp, against my better judgement (which was to
- follow up to /dev/null.)
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- I won't rest till it's the best ...
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- Paul Jackson (pj@sgi.com), x1373
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