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

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From: akao Adam Kao
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:37

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In article <1hquujINNmov@fido.asd.sgi.com> pj@sgi.com 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.

You're teaching grandmother how to suck eggs ...


Adam

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