big + little endian (was: Comparison of Alpha, MIPS ..)

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From: Paul Jackson
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 01:44

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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)

Big and little endian refer to the order of bytes within words,
not to the order of bits within bytes.

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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				Paul Jackson (pj@sgi.com), x1373

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Subject: big + little endian (was: Comparison of Alpha, MIPS ..)
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