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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Byte Addressability And Beyond
Date: Wed, 1 May 2024 06:32:17 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 1 May 2024 01:49:56 -0000 (UTC), John Levine wrote:

> Until the PDP-11, all byte addressed machines were bigendian. Despite a
> lot of looking, I have never found an explanation of why DEC made the
> PDP-11 littlendian.

As I previously mentioned, little-endian just makes more sense.

Unfortunately, when their Fortran compiler implemented 32-bit integers (in 
software), they got the words the wrong way round.

The VAX was like a 32-bit extension of the PDP-11, and it was consistently 
little-endian everywhere.