Data storage info needed

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From: Dorothy Westphal
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 15:31

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We are assembling a brief guide for our users
who have been using various mainframes or
workstations, and wish to switch to a different
machine. We are including some comparison tables
on data representation on five workstations and 
two mainframes, primarily for FORTRAN programmers
(yes, they still exist!). I have been digging through the
manuals, and I have not been able to find the
following on the IBM workstation (we have Powerstation 340):

1. is bit storage bit alignment 0 to 31, right to left?        
2. is a character constant stored left to right or right to left?

Thanks in advance for any help.
-- 
Dorothy Westphal, Sunnyvale, Calif. % Just when things are going your way...%
westphal@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com   %               they get even better!   %

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From: westphal@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com (Dorothy Westphal)
Subject: Data storage info needed
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