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- From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
- Subject: Re: endian, what is it?
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 22:31:33 GMT
- Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- In article <1992Dec21.101455.15024@csus.edu> eburk@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (Eli Burk) writes:
- >howdy
- >What is "big" endian and "little" endian? How do they relate
- >to 386 and 486?
-
- These terms are no longer PC and highly offensive to liberal microprocessors.
- Please use the term "native binary format".
-
- One binary format puts maps multi-byte numbers to memory addresses in a way
- compatible with the way we write out numbers (highest order first), and the
- other maps numbers in the proper direction (lowest order byte first). If this
- were a Motorola newsgroup, we'd reverse our assessment here of who is correct,
- of course.
-