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Article #12517Re: A theory for Big & Little Endian's origin
From: Dik T. Winter
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 00:32
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 00:32
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In article <willmore.726511292@help.cc.iastate.edu> willmore@iastate.edu (David Willmore) writes: > To store a byte, there are no choices, 8 bits arranged any way > at one location is a byte. Yup, but on bit addressable machines (yes, they do exist) the assumption that the order is irrelevant is already invalid. -- dik t. winter, cwi, kruislaan 413, 1098 sj amsterdam, nederland home: bovenover 215, 1025 jn amsterdam, nederland; e-mail: dik@cwi.nl
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!cwi.nl!dik From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: A theory for Big & Little Endian's origin Message-ID: <8570@charon.cwi.nl> Date: 9 Jan 93 00:32:51 GMT References: <1iig7aINNtc@spim.mti.sgi.com> <1993Jan8.120225.8330@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <willmore.726511292@help.cc.iastate.edu> Sender: news@cwi.nl Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 8