Re: Wrong Endian platform suggestions

[John Nemeth <jnemeth%cue.bc.ca@localhost>]

On Aug 10,  4:29pm, Robert Elz wrote:
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}     Date:        Wed, 10 Aug 2016 09:27:51 +0200
}     From:        Andreas Krey <a.krey%gmx.de@localhost>
}     Message-ID:  <20160810072751.GD18740%inner.h.apk.li@localhost>
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}   | BigEndian looks best when used in protocols, yet there is
}   | the argument that it is inconsistent in bit and byte addressing.
} 
} "bit addressing" is mostly a software convention - when I started out
} with computing (on big endian systems) the convention was that the bits
} were numbered left to right, just the same as everything else.  That is,
} bit 0 was the most significant (or sign) bit.

     I seem to recall that being the case for IBM Mainframes when
I learned S/370 Assembly Language.  But I don't recall ever seeing
it anywhere else.

}-- End of excerpt from Robert Elz