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From: bc@cyb-eng.UUCP (Bill Crews)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re:  Re: Uses of \\"short\\" ?
Message-ID: <759@cyb-eng.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Oct-85 13:04:51 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 22 13:04:51 1985
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> I chose little endian because thats what most networks seem to use (as
> opposed to IBM or Motorola CPUs).

The DARPA protocols (TCP/IP) are perhaps the most widely-used among Unix
systems.  Network byte order for these protocols is big-endian.
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