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- From: tmcconne@sedona.intel.com (Tom McConnell~)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
- Subject: Re: endian, what is it?
- Date: 2 Jan 1993 05:24:08 GMT
- Organization: Intel Corporation
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- Sender: tmcconne@sedona (Tom McConnell~)
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- References: <1992Dec21.101455.15024@csus.edu> <1i2go5INNac@uwm.edu>
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- In article <1i2go5INNac@uwm.edu>, markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:
- > 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.
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- All the more reason to use them. I am beginning to intensely dislike the
- pressure to put current political dogma over well understood, and in this case
- meaningful, terms. Of course, if you meant that in jest, that was pretty
- funny :)
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- Cheers,
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- Tom McConnell
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