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From: w-colinp@microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.misc,comp.lang.misc,comp.protocols.misc
Subject: Re: "big endian" and "little endian" - first usage for computer
Message-ID: <170@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jan 89 09:17:47 GMT
References: <2766@cbnews.ATT.COM> <10147@well.UUCP> <13045@cup.portal.com> <145@bms-at.UUCP>
Reply-To: w-colinp@microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <145@bms-at.UUCP> stuart@bms-at.UUCP (Stuart Gathman) writes:
>The problem is, there are no consistent little-endian machines, the
>big-endian infiltrators have sabotaged every last one (that I know of).

The Inmos transputer is uniformly little-endian.  This applies to both
integers and floating-point numbers (where most others mess up).
-- 
	-Colin (uunet!microsof!w-colinp)