Re:Ask HN: Is big-endian dead?
by gumby on Friday January 19, 2018 @06:26PM
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PDP-11 had a little endian architecture while big endian machines like the PDP-6/PDP-10 predominated on the net.
To make life more interesting, the later PDP-10/20 mainframes used PDP-11 minicomputers as front end processors and often as network processors so byte-swapping was the norm. Luckily the PDP-10 allowed bytes ranging from 1-36 bits wide - “byte” had not yet standardized on 8 bits
To make life more interesting, the later PDP-10/20 mainframes used PDP-11 minicomputers as front end processors and often as network processors so byte-swapping was the norm. Luckily the PDP-10 allowed bytes ranging from 1-36 bits wide - “byte” had not yet standardized on 8 bits