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Article #12841Re: byte order: be reasonable - do it my way...
From: John B. Nagle
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1987 08:38
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1987 08:38
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big-endian, but TP4/MAP is little-endian.
Incidentally, there are some fields in X.25 control frames where the
BITS are in reverse order, for obscure historical reasons.
John Nagle
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!rutgers!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!decwrl!labrea!glacier!jbn From: jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle) Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.sys.m68k Subject: Re: byte order: be reasonable - do it my way... Message-ID: <14542@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> Date: Sat, 17-Jan-87 03:38:34 EST Article-I.D.: glacier.14542 Posted: Sat Jan 17 03:38:34 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Jan-87 04:08:31 EST References: <760@orcisi.UUCP> <1011@cuuxb.UUCP> <753@vaxb.calgary.UUCP> <183@pembina.alberta.UUCP> <980@gould9.UUCP> Reply-To: jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle) Organization: Stanford University Lines: 5 Keywords: This is a problem in the network world as well. The IP/TCP world is