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This byte article does not seems concerned about the choice of endianness (big-endian or little-endian).
by erwan577 7y ago
This byte article does not seems concerned about the choice of endianness (big-endian or little-endian).
- kabdib 7y agoHonestly, byte order didn't matter much. There were so many more dimensions of incompatibility available that byte-order didn't enter the picture when you were choosing a processor for a product. Most data was exchanged via files written to floppy disks, and you just wrote conversion utilities (or programs dealt with save formats on the fly).
- magoghm 7y agoEndianness matters when you share binary data between computers with different architectures. That didn't happen that often in 1984.