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From: srm@iris.berkeley.edu (Richard Mateosian)
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Subject: Re: Byte ordering, and pros/cons
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Date: Thu, 27-Nov-86 05:54:55 EST
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>Motorola byte ordering is better for *graphics* bit-blitting,
>since the bytes have the same left-to-right ordering
>in the registers as they do in memory.

There is nothing to stop you from thinking of the LSB of a register as
being on the left and the MSB on the right.  A purely little-endian
graphics engine (e.g., National's AGCS) is entirely consistent.  Some
would say it's the only reasonable way to do it.
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