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- From: john@sekrit.WPI.EDU (John Stoffel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
- Subject: Re: Are the Alpha-Machines big- or little-endian ?
- Date: 12 Jan 93 10:12:56
- Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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- References: <1993Jan8.170148.11988@wavehh.hanse.de> <2375@sousa.tay.dec.com>
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- In-reply-to: noel@reg.triumf.ca's message of 11 Jan 1993 14:03 PST
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- >>>>> On 11 Jan 1993 14:03 PST, noel@reg.triumf.ca (NOEL GIFFIN) said:
- NOEL> News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41
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- >The Alpha chip (DECchip 21064) can be used to build either a big endian
- >or little endian system. For example, the Cray Research Alpha-based
- >MPP system is big endian.
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- NOEL> Ok I'll byte, How many little Endians does it take to make
- NOEL> One Big Endian?
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- One little, two little, three little Endians...
- four little five little, six little Endians...
- Seven little, eight little, nine little Endians...
- Ten little endian bytes and bits.
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