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Article #1162Re: endian, what is it?
From: Mark
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993 22:31
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993 22:31
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In article <1992Dec21.101455.15024@csus.edu> eburk@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (Eli Burk) writes: >howdy >What is "big" endian and "little" endian? How do they relate >to 386 and 486? These terms are no longer PC and highly offensive to liberal microprocessors. Please use the term "native binary format". One binary format puts maps multi-byte numbers to memory addresses in a way compatible with the way we write out numbers (highest order first), and the other maps numbers in the proper direction (lowest order byte first). If this were a Motorola newsgroup, we'd reverse our assessment here of who is correct, of course.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!markh From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: endian, what is it? Date: 1 Jan 1993 22:31:33 GMT Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Lines: 13 Message-ID: <1i2go5INNac@uwm.edu> References: <1992Dec21.101455.15024@csus.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4