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From: imw@siesoft.co.uk (Ian Wild)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: new word order?
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.095745.13399@siesoft.co.uk>
Date: 1 Mar 91 09:57:45 GMT
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friedl@mtndew.Tustin.CA.US (Stephen J. Friedl) says:
>Hi folks,
>
>     I need some help.  I know about big-endian and little-endian
>architectures, but George Bush keeps talking about a "new word order",
>and I cannot for the life of me figure out which way it could go.
>Anybody have any ideas?
>
>     Steve :-)

Didn't Microsoft provide a switch for this in their Xenix cc?

Bytes in a long:

68xxx:               1 2 3 4
80x86 (normally):    4 3 2 1
80x86 (+ cc -Mb):    2 1 4 3

My question is WHY?


Ian