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Re:Byte Ordering: On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace (1980) by Tor3 on Monday September 16, 2024 @08:24AM (#41555344)
.. or a 6502 microprocessor doing 16-bit arithmetic with an 8-bit ALU. The 6502 was designed by a team who used to work with the big endian 6800, and chose little endian for their 6502 for a slight performance improvement.
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Re:Byte Ordering: On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace (1980) by p_l on Monday September 16, 2024 @10:09AM (#41556239)
That falls into my second case of using smaller ALU in two steps :)
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