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Big endian vs little endian hardware?
by smallstepforman 8y ago
Big endian vs little endian hardware?
- olliej 8y agoThat’s my understanding - a lot of the low power devices were big endian as for whatever reason big endian and risc seemed heavily correlated for decades, similarly the early mainframes and whatnot were big endian which is why a lot of network protocols use big endian formats.
- ekun 8y agoI've noticed that decisions like this are sometimes made for the sake of being the opposite of something else and then the two coexist decades within neighboring realms to the frustration and bafflement of users.
- barrystaes 8y ago"decisions like this are sometimes made for the sake of being the opposite of something else and then the two coexist decades within neighboring realms to the frustration and bafflement of users" Oh, you mean a political two-party system?