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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).