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Subject: Re: Intel vs Motorola Byte ordering
Message-ID: <1335@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Sat, 22-Nov-86 17:02:25 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 22 17:02:25 1986
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In article <1509@ihlpl.UUCP>, swanson@ihlpl.UUCP (Swanson) writes:
> Could someone please explain to me the rational behind the
> way INTEL stores words in memory?  The way Motorola stores
> words in memory?

If enough people are apathetic (e.g. don't complain), I will post a
great piece, "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace", which is the best
description of byte ordering problems I've ever seen.  It was written
by Danny Cohen of USC-ISI, released as an Internet Experiment Note
(IEN-137), and eventually published in Datamation.  It runs about 36K
bytes.  Send me mail if you think I should not post it.

I will post it to mod.sources.doc if I can get any response out of
the moderator.  That group has been inactive for a long time.
-- 
John Gilmore  {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu   jgilmore@lll-crg.arpa
    "I can't think of a better way for the War Dept to spend money than to
  subsidize the education of teenage system hackers by creating the Arpanet."