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.miscDate : 28. Feb 2025, 21:57:03
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On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 18:11:40 -0000 (UTC), John Levine wrote:
... the PDP-11 was little-endian, unlike all previous byte addressed
machines that were big-endian.
How many previous machines were byte-addressable? Was there anything other
than the IBM 360/370 series at that point?
While there are lots of guesses about why they did that, as far as I can
tell, they never wrote down the reason to switch the byte order, and I
have looked in a lot of places.
It just makes more sense.
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