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- From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
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- Subject: Re: A theory for Big & Little Endian's origin
- Message-ID: <8570@charon.cwi.nl>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 00:32:51 GMT
- References: <1iig7aINNtc@spim.mti.sgi.com> <1993Jan8.120225.8330@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <willmore.726511292@help.cc.iastate.edu>
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- In article <willmore.726511292@help.cc.iastate.edu> willmore@iastate.edu (David Willmore) writes:
- > To store a byte, there are no choices, 8 bits arranged any way
- > at one location is a byte.
- Yup, but on bit addressable machines (yes, they do exist) the assumption
- that the order is irrelevant is already invalid.
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