On 19 September 2012 12:50, Bill Fairchild <[email protected]> wrote: > My increasingly failure-prone long-term memory thought that I had heard or > read somewhere long ago that this was true. Upon Googling, I have found this > discussion of PDP's vs. IBM's bit numbering schemes: > http://onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/02/22/open-formats-open-source.html
One of the more muddled attempts out there to explain various aspects of "the way things are" by conflating multiple unrelated items. > But reading about the little- and big-endian ways of numbering bits is very > interesting. It would perhaps be more interesting if it was accurate. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
