Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!hplabs!ucbvax!agate!e260-3d.berkeley.edu!c60c-3aw
From: c60c-3aw@e260-3d.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Long and short integers
Summary: Go easy on the generalizations...
Message-ID: <17372@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 22 Nov 88 21:34:38 GMT
References: <8811220359.aa03637@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>
Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Lines: 17

In article <8811220359.aa03637@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> NU133716@VM1.NODAK.EDU (Brian Glaeske) writes:
[...]
>  Most, I dare say ALL computers use what is called Most Significant Bit,
>and Least Significant Bit.  These are the biggest and the smallest part
>of the the number respectfully.  The MSB is store in the highest memory
>location, because it is bigger.  And the LSB is stored in the lowest memory
>location, because of course it it smaller.

The Mac...?

>Brian G.

-- 
fadden@zen.berkeley.edu [crashed]
c60c-3aw@widow.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden)
(Outgoing E-mail has about a 40% chance of successfully reaching you.  Feel
 free to respond through the mail, but I probably can't answer.)