On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, John Alvord wrote:

> The way I understand it, the little endian scheme is optimized for
> mini/micro hardware of the middle 1970s (4004. 8080, PDP etc). Those

I don't think the 4004 (4-bit words) could have ben either;-)

You neglected the 8008, after the 4004 and before the 8080. The only
think I know about the 8008 is that they were used in some terminals we
had in the mid 70s, made by Information Electronics in Canberra.




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