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From: jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
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Subject: Re: Pseudo-FORTRAN -- f2c for the Macintosh
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Date: 3 Jun 91 16:18:59 GMT
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In article <6081@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>, ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
|> [...]
|> 3.  The claim that "all Fortran implementations" use the (extremely
|>     sensible) "little-endian" byte order that the VAX and the 80*86 use
|>     is grossly at variance with the facts.  [...]
|>     [...]               IBM 370s use the same byte order as M680x0s.

True.  And Cray, CDC and other word addressed machines tend to be 
"big-endian" (for _all_ languages, not just Fortran).

J. Giles