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From: ddb@ns.UUCP (David Dyer-Bennet)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: DECstation 3100 info. (LSB stan
Message-ID: <1092@ns.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jan 89 20:00:06 GMT
References: <2932@imagen.UUCP> <46500043@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: ddb@ns.UUCP (David Dyer-Bennet)
Organization: Terrabit Software
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In article <46500043@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
:I seem to recall that
:1620's (circa 1960) stored the least significant (decimal) digit
:first.

I don't think so; seems to me you addressed the low-order digit, and
indicated the field end with a flag on the high-order digit.  Numbers read
normally on a normal left-to-right dump.  Boy, it's been a LONG time!


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David Dyer-Bennet
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