On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:25:11 +0000, Bill Fairchild wrote: >It could be a lot worse. Hardware engineers number the bits in a >byte in the opposite manner that we software techies do; i.e., >bit 0 (hardware) = bit 7 (software), etc.
Do they really? I know that the documentation for some architectures have the bits numbered with 0 being the low-order bit. Programmers working on those architectures typically number the bits the same way. AFAICT, everything to do with IBM mainframes has bit 0 as the high-order bit. I know that this was true of the Amdahl engineering documents. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
