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From: zweig@cs.uiuc.edu (Johnny Zweig)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: BYTE SEX
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Date: 3 Dec 90 05:35:09 GMT
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peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Request for a bit of trivia. The term "byte sex" is used to indicate
>endian-ness: "That data's in the wrong byte sex", or "MIPS processors
>can be either byte sex: they're bytesexual". Kind of obscure these
>days.
>Question: which byte-sex corresponds to which? I think female is little
>endian, like PDP-11s and Intels, but I don't know for sure. Is there a
>standard for byte sex?

As with all talks about sex, there are only two things to keep in mind: BIG
and LITTLE.  (That's what _she_ said....)  I have never heard male/female with
respect to byte-gender -- just big (ooh baby) and little (it's not size that
matters).....


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