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Article #73994Re: Patent on a standard-byte order for intermachine communication
From: Industrial Poet
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1991 13:59
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1991 13:59
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sitze@nmsu.edu (Richard Sitze) writes: > Remember that the best ideas are usually the most simple... and byte > ordering is one of those. Wonderfully obvious in hindsight, simple, > but it took a while to become really 'wide spread' in practice. Are you suggesting that standard byte ordering isn't an obvious idea unless you've been told about it? I'm willing to bet that without prompting, some non-computer-literate people who have the problem explained to them will come up with standard byte ordering as a solution. mathew
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,9a4c815047ed049b X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-07-17 13:05:10 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!ibmpcug!mantis!mathew From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (Industrial Poet) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Patent on a standard-byte order for intermachine communication Message-ID: <BDF954w164w@mantis.co.uk> Date: 17 Jul 91 13:59:10 GMT References: <1727@opus.NMSU.Edu> Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK. Lines: 16