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- From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: A better theory for Endian origins
- Message-ID: <8573@charon.cwi.nl>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 01:32:19 GMT
- References: <1ikepuINNgt7@spim.mti.sgi.com> <1993Jan8.185448.2405@news.uiowa.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan8.185448.2405@news.uiowa.edu> jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879) writes:
- > There are a few rational ways of numbering the bits in a word. One is
- > to number them left to right:
- >
- > 1 2 3 4 ...
-
- Sorry, what is 'left' in a word? When I started with computers a word was
- some abstract thing consisting of a number of transistors (to be honest,
- no transistors at that time). You are already making a picture, but you
- might make the picture the other way.
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