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Because pretty much no machine in the universe used little-endian before Intel decided to save a cycle somewhere in the 8008 design, so there was no reason to h
by drfuchs 4y ago
Because pretty much no machine in the universe used little-endian before Intel decided to save a cycle somewhere in the 8008 design, so there was no reason to have a way to refer to it. And even then, nobody paid much attention until IBM put an 8086 into the PC, rather than a Motorola 68X0, right about the time of the article you mention. It's been downhill ever since.
- userbinator 4y agoMultiple-precision arithmetic routines were almost always little-endian.
- guidoism 4y agoI agree with the sentiment but the RFC even mentions the PDP 11 as the first computer to claim being little endian. I wonder if the ascent of C and Unix at that time also contributed to it.
- guidoism 4y agoI’ve been writing a lot of MMIX lately and I really like big endian. It’s so much nicer to watch memory and registers change when ordered this way.