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Re:The Byte Order Fiasco by CountHackulus on Saturday May 08, 2021 @09:03AM (#27086776)
Middle-endian is the only correct answer. It's a tradeoff between both little-endian and big-endian. The PDP-11 got it right.
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Re:The Byte Order Fiasco by ben509 on Saturday May 08, 2021 @10:01AM (#27087200)
Yup, we're all waiting for the rest of the world to catch up to MM/DD/YYYY.
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Re:The Byte Order Fiasco by gnufx on Sunday May 09, 2021 @09:35AM (#27095786)
I don't suppose it's being modified, but I wonder how much -11 code is still running, even on real hardware.
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