Re: evolution of bytes, The joy of FORTRAN

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Sujet : Re: evolution of bytes, The joy of FORTRAN
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.misc
Date : 01. Mar 2025, 03:43:18
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On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 17:51:40 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>
[Little-endian] just makes more sense.
 
A lot of older machines were character-addressable. The term “byte”
hadn’t been invented yet. The 1401 (etc), 1620, and many 70xx machines.

The 1401 and 1620 were effectively little-endian, too. I don’t think any
of those other pre-System/360 machines offered both long (multicharacter)
word lengths and character addressability.

The initial meaning of “byte” was actually “bitfield”.

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