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Article #11560Endianess again
From: h.-g. willers
Date: Tue, 14 May 1991 15:19
Date: Tue, 14 May 1991 15:19
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Endianess again! We are considering to build a VME-based computer board using a little endian processor. Is there any reason to swap bytes and shorts going from and to the (big endian) VME, or are things just more easy when we do not swap anything? -- No RISC, no fun! H.-G. Willers PCS-Mail: hgw internal phone ( -271 ) DOMAIN: hgw@rht32.pcs.de (EUR) or hgw@rht32.pcs.com (US) BANG: ..unido!pcsbst!hgw (EUR) or ..pyramid!pcsbst!hgw (US)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!RHT32.PCS.COM!hgw From: hgw@RHT32.PCS.COM (h.-g. willers) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Endianess again Message-ID: <m0jd17b-0003uJC@rht32.pcs.com> Date: 14 May 91 15:19:22 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 13 X-Unparsable-Date: Tue, 14 May 91 16:17:05 MEZ