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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: evolution of bytes, The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 20:57:03 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 18:11:40 -0000 (UTC), John Levine wrote:

> ... the PDP-11 was little-endian, unlike all previous byte addressed
> machines that were big-endian.

How many previous machines were byte-addressable? Was there anything other 
than the IBM 360/370 series at that point?

> While there are lots of guesses about why they did that, as far as I can
> tell, they never wrote down the reason to switch the byte order, and I
> have looked in a lot of places.

It just makes more sense.