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Article #12518Re: A better theory for Endian origins
From: Dik T. Winter
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 01:32
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 01:32
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In article <1993Jan8.185448.2405@news.uiowa.edu> jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879) writes: > There are a few rational ways of numbering the bits in a word. One is > to number them left to right: > > 1 2 3 4 ... Sorry, what is 'left' in a word? When I started with computers a word was some abstract thing consisting of a number of transistors (to be honest, no transistors at that time). You are already making a picture, but you might make the picture the other way. -- 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 better theory for Endian origins Message-ID: <8573@charon.cwi.nl> Date: 9 Jan 93 01:32:19 GMT References: <1ikepuINNgt7@spim.mti.sgi.com> <1993Jan8.185448.2405@news.uiowa.edu> Sender: news@cwi.nl Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 13