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- From: daniel@clsi.COM (Daniel S. Barclay)
- Subject: Re: big + little endian (was: Comparison of Alpha, MIPS ..)
- In-Reply-To: pj@sam.wpd.sgi.com's message of 30 Dec 1992 01:44:51 GMT
- Message-ID: <DANIEL.92Dec30124512@algol.clsi.COM>
- Sender: usenet@clsi.COM
- Organization: CAD Language Systems Inc.
- References: <1992Dec29.044012.1@cc.curtin.edu.au> <3623363@zl2tnm.gen.nz>
- <28164@dog.ee.lbl.gov> <1hquujINNmov@fido.asd.sgi.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 12:45:12
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- pj@sam.wpd.sgi.com (Paul Jackson) writes>
- > 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)
- >
- > Big and little endian refer to the order of bytes within words,
- > not to the order of bits within bytes.
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- Don't those terms also refer to the _numbering_ of bits within bytes or words?
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- Daniel S. Barclay --who's still searching for a good
- CAD Language Systems, Inc. signature, not liking any of his recent
- Suite 101, 5457 Twin Knolls Rd. feeble attempts to improve on the whiny:
- Columbia, MD 21045 USA Why can't _I_ think of a good signature?
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