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Article #1164Re: endian, what is it?
From: Tom McConnell~
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 05:24
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 05:24
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In article <1i2go5INNac@uwm.edu>, markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:
> 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.
All the more reason to use them. I am beginning to intensely dislike the
pressure to put current political dogma over well understood, and in this case
meaningful, terms. Of course, if you meant that in jest, that was pretty
funny :)
Cheers,
Tom McConnell
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!chnews!tmcconne From: tmcconne@sedona.intel.com (Tom McConnell~) Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: endian, what is it? Date: 2 Jan 1993 05:24:08 GMT Organization: Intel Corporation Lines: 22 Sender: tmcconne@sedona (Tom McConnell~) Distribution: world Message-ID: <1i38toINN9dt@chnews.intel.com> References: <1992Dec21.101455.15024@csus.edu> <1i2go5INNac@uwm.edu> Reply-To: tmcconne@sedona.intel.com NNTP-Posting-Host: thunder.intel.com Originator: tmcconne@sedona