From: Bob Crispen <revbob@EIGHT-BALL.HV.BOEING.COM>
Subject: Re: Endian and Ada
Date: 1996/04/18
Date: 1996-04-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9604181215.AA05581@eight-ball> (raw)
phil@SEVERN.DEMON.CO.UK wrote a splendid 17-point post explaining
why bit-order is one way for one CPU and another way for another, with
some suggestions to the CPU makers.
He forgot but one point: in Ada, we set the bit order to match the
machine so that the code can match the manual. We simply remember the
times we sat there late at night with the sample driver code in one
hand and the manual in the other and got so mad at the inconsiderate
&%$#*&^s who wrote them that we threw the both at the wall on the
other side of the cube and left for the night, muttering "Catch me
buying a board again from *them*!"
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Someone flogging a commercial product on an inappropriate newsgroup asked:
>Is anyone interested in an excellent memory source?
What was that again?
Bob Crispen
revbob@eight-ball.hv.boeing.com
Speaking for myself, not my company
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1996-04-18 0:00 Bob Crispen [this message]
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1996-04-08 0:00 Endian and Ada Michael Anthony Porcelli
1996-04-08 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-04-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-09 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
1996-04-09 0:00 ` Thomas Koenig
1996-04-09 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-04-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-04-08 0:00 ` Mike Young
1996-04-09 0:00 ` Joseph Wisniewski
1996-04-09 0:00 ` Michael Anthony Porcelli
1996-04-10 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-04-11 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-04-09 0:00 ` Michael Anthony Porcelli
1996-04-09 0:00 ` Kelly Grant
1996-04-09 0:00 ` Mike Young
1996-04-14 0:00 ` LJMetzger
1996-04-17 0:00 ` phil
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