On Jun 15, 2005, at 11:04 AM, Daniel T. Staal wrote:
Endian issues (and endian in general) are computer terms dealing with
how
numbers are stored/worked with on a computer. Just about every
computer
knows what a 'byte' is, but then you have numbers which are two, or
four,
or___ bytes long. The question is: What order are the bytes in? There
are two possbile (Well, with longer numbers there are more, but only
two
good ones.), and good reasons for each. So, of course, people do it
both
ways.
Don't worry, Apple has solved the Endian problem once and for all with
the move to Intel:
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One technical barrier could be the so-called Endian, or byte-order
problem, which refers to the fact that Intel and Macs traditionally
arrange bytes in opposite orders.
The Endian problem is also an issue for Mac software developers. To
address the problem, Tiger is shipping with SQLite. Bertrand Serlet,
Apple's Senior Vice President of Software Engineering, said that use of
SQLite solves the Endian problem.
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- From http://macwindows.com/, "Apple Goes Intel"
;-)
