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From: lamaster@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Hugh LaMaster)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.misc,comp.lang.misc,comp.protocols.misc
Subject: Re: "big endian" and "little endian" - first usage for computer
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Date: 5 Jan 89 16:51:41 GMT
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In article <20264@ames.arc.nasa.gov> lamaster@ames.arc.nasa.gov.UUCP (Hugh LaMaster) writes:
>I could be wrong, but I think a fully consistent little-endian machine
>(e.g. nsc 32xxx) does not have this disadvantage.

I was assuming an equality comparison.  Most people seem to assume strcmp(),
for which it does make a difference (this could lead to a very long discussion
of how important strcmp-like comparisons are, etc., which I will avoid.)

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  Hugh LaMaster, m/s 233-9,  UUCP ames!lamaster
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