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From: jerry@TALOS.UUCP (Jerry Gitomer)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: new word order?
Message-ID: <1255@TALOS.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 91 21:03:42 GMT
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imw@siesoft.co.uk (Ian Wild) writes:

|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

	Maybe it just can't count in a normal manner.

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