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Article #22410Re: Byte ordering
From: Desmond Young
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1990 02:20
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1990 02:20
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In article <1990Feb5.192958.12091@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: > I don't see the relevance of RS232. Nothing except the UART chips ever > cares about the bit order on the wire; all the computers involved deal > with the data a byte/character at a time. It's the same way on Ethernet: > the bytes are transmitted a bit at a time, but almost nobody knows or > cares which bit order is used. Well, not quite. Since the IEEE committees in their wisdom (and I suppose sort of justified) defined two bit orderings, this has meant there are people interested in the order. Ethernet vs Token-Ring/FDDI. When converting between the two (bridging), reversing the address bit orders is a bit of a pain. Des
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!lll-winken!decwrl!nsc!voder!dtg.nsc.com!des From: des@dtg.nsc.com (Desmond Young) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Byte ordering Summary: Bit-order is a don't care Message-ID: <648@blenheim.nsc.com> Date: 13 Feb 90 02:20:47 GMT References: <9656@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <1990Feb2.215421.24894@utzoo.uucp> <1990Feb5.192958.12091@utzoo.uucp> Organization: National Semiconductor, Santa Clara Lines: 14