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From: turk@Apple.COM (Ken Turkowski)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: 64 bit architectures and C/C++
Message-ID: <13357@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 6 May 91 18:29:53 GMT
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rli@buster.stafford.tx.us (Buster Irby) writes:
>An Intel or BIG_ENDIAN machine stores the
>bytes in reverse order, while a Motorolla or LITTLE_ENDIAN
>machine stores the bytes in normal order (High to low).

You've got this perfectly reversed.  Motorola is a BIG_ENDIAN machine,
and Intel is a LITTLE_ENDIAN machine.  Additionally, there is no
such thing as "normal".

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