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From: aglew@ccvaxa.UUCP
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Subject: Re: RISC data alignment
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Date: 25 Jan 88 17:27:00 GMT
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	Further, it would seem that if that C structure were written out to a
	file, it could only be read properly by a machine of the same type as
	that which wrote it.

Many have affirmed the veracity of this statement. May I amplify it:
it sometimes isn't true between machines of the same type. A while back
I worked on a MULTIBUS 68000 system that did byte swapping to match the
68000's idea of data layout. Of course, it couldn't interchange disk
data with VME 68000 systems without byte swapping.