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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Interfaces.Shift_Left
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"Simon Wright" <simon@pushface.org> wrote in message 
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> Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> writes:
>
>> I get your point. I don't really know, myself, how the trends are
>> going. If big-endian bit-numbering is as rare as 1's complement, you
>> have a good point.
>
> As you noted below, there's SPARC; and in rugged systems there are still
> quite a lot of big-endian processors about (6 BE to 8 LE from GE
> Intelligent Platforms, for example).

Yes, they're about, but mostly they're older designs. (At least, that is the 
way it was explained to me; I haven't studied processors for years, early 
SPARC being the last one that I coded for.)

                                     Randy.