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.
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} "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.