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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: Interfaces.Shift_Left
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:08:56 +0000
Date: 2011-12-20T21:08:56+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m24nwv7xxz.fsf@pushface.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9lc6bqFfhrU1@mid.individual.net

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).



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-20 21:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-12 22:30 Interfaces.Shift_Left awdorrin
2011-12-12 23:34 ` Interfaces.Shift_Left Simon Wright
2011-12-13  1:36   ` Interfaces.Shift_Left Adam Beneschan
2011-12-13 12:00 ` Interfaces.Shift_Left Brian Drummond
2011-12-13 13:15   ` Interfaces.Shift_Left awdorrin
2011-12-13 21:48     ` Interfaces.Shift_Left Randy Brukardt
2011-12-14 18:28       ` Interfaces.Shift_Left awdorrin
2011-12-14 22:49         ` Interfaces.Shift_Left Randy Brukardt
2011-12-15  9:51           ` Interfaces.Shift_Left Niklas Holsti
2011-12-16  0:23             ` Interfaces.Shift_Left Randy Brukardt
2011-12-18 20:47               ` Interfaces.Shift_Left Niklas Holsti
2011-12-20  0:38                 ` Interfaces.Shift_Left Randy Brukardt
2011-12-20  2:18                   ` Interfaces.Shift_Left Shark8
2011-12-20 10:08                   ` Interfaces.Shift_Left Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-12-20 19:38                   ` Interfaces.Shift_Left Niklas Holsti
2011-12-20 20:46                     ` Interfaces.Shift_Left Niklas Holsti
2011-12-20 21:13                       ` Interfaces.Shift_Left Simon Wright
2011-12-20 21:08                     ` Simon Wright [this message]
2011-12-20 23:26                       ` Interfaces.Shift_Left Randy Brukardt
2011-12-20 23:36                     ` Interfaces.Shift_Left Randy Brukardt
2011-12-21  0:44                       ` Interfaces.Shift_Left Georg Bauhaus
2011-12-21  7:23                       ` Interfaces.Shift_Left AdaMagica
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