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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: Byte Addressability And Beyond
Date: Wed, 1 May 2024 18:52:43 -0000 (UTC)
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According to Scott Lurndal <slp53@pacbell.net>:
>>Ahem.  You're guessing.
>>
>>I can assure you it didn't make more sense to all the people who read
>>360 core dumps.  BTDT.
>
>To be fair, the tool that formatted the core dump could easily have
>arranged the human visible values appropriately, much like xxd(1)
>on linux does for little-endian values (i.e. when grouped with
>four bytes per (32-bits), the byte 3 value is printed first).

It could if it knew the structure of the data it was dumping, but it
didn't, which was OK because it didn't have to. Like I said, BTDT.

The first time I saw a PDP-11 in about 1970, I saw that the byte order
was backward and thought, well, that is strange, and then dealt with
it.
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