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Article #4473Re: Are the Alpha-Machines big- or little-endian ?
From: John Stoffel
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 10:12
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 10:12
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>>>>> On 11 Jan 1993 14:03 PST, noel@reg.triumf.ca (NOEL GIFFIN) said: NOEL> News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 >The Alpha chip (DECchip 21064) can be used to build either a big endian >or little endian system. For example, the Cray Research Alpha-based >MPP system is big endian. NOEL> Ok I'll byte, How many little Endians does it take to make NOEL> One Big Endian? One little, two little, three little Endians... four little five little, six little Endians... Seven little, eight little, nine little Endians... Ten little endian bytes and bits. -- Youth of today! Join me in a mass rally for traditional mental attitudes! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- john@wpi.wpi.edu | Work Station Specialist | Worcester Polytechnic Institute John Stoffel | 508-831-5512 (work) | Worcester, MA 01609
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!bigboote.WPI.EDU!bigboote.wpi.edu!john From: john@sekrit.WPI.EDU (John Stoffel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Subject: Re: Are the Alpha-Machines big- or little-endian ? Date: 12 Jan 93 10:12:56 Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute Lines: 21 Distribution: world Message-ID: <JOHN.93Jan12101256@sekrit.WPI.EDU> References: <1993Jan8.170148.11988@wavehh.hanse.de> <2375@sousa.tay.dec.com> <11JAN199314035035@reg.triumf.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: sekrit.wpi.edu In-reply-to: noel@reg.triumf.ca's message of 11 Jan 1993 14:03 PST