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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: DECstation 3100 info. (LSB stan
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Date: 22 Jan 89 15:18:00 GMT
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<All machines
<used the MSB standard until DEC "improved" the situation in 1970.

Really? Can't anyone think of an exception? I seem to recall that
1620's (circa 1960) stored the least significant (decimal) digit
first. (Recall that a character was two digits, and an integer,
2 to 20000 digits). Isn't that "little endian"?