Re: Byte Addressability And Beyond

It appears that Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid> said:

 "Unlike Swift's, the computer Endian controversy is not pointless. The
 Little Endian design has many complications in use; we much prefer the
 Big Endian."

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It’s easy to illustrate why they’re wrong. First of all, a note that, even
on big-endian architectures, registers are still actually little-endian.

I would be most interested in a concrete illustration of this
implausible argument. How about starting with the IBM 360 principles
of operation and pointing out the little endian registers.

If you don't have a copy handy, you can find one here

https://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/princOps/A22-6821-7_360PrincOpsDec67.pdf

You might also look at its instruction set which is quite unlike the ones
you seem to be familiar with.
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