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Re: [SLUG] Endian-ness.

To: David Fisher <dfisher@nospam.jedi.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Endian-ness.
From: Terry Collins <terryc@nospam.woa.com.au>
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2000 17:54:40 +1000
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David Fisher wrote:
> 
> Would some kind soul mind explaining what this Endian business is all about?
> I have seen frequent references to it on this list but not elsewhere.

aargh basically a word in computer terms (16 bits) is two bytes (8
bits) and it relates to where the most significant digit is in the
first or last byte. 

There are processing advantages and disadvantages for each method and
the question is usually a religious topic {;-)

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