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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Binary and XML serialization of types
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 18:57:52 +0100
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On Tue, 4 Feb 2014 09:16:04 -0800 (PST), AdaMagica wrote:

> What's that, ME machines? Never heard about those.

E.g. PDP-11. That is when endianness of one kind is used to compose words
and another to do double words etc. "Crazy" byte orders like 3412 are quite
common in automation protocols, e.g. in ModBus couplers.

ME had its reasons. Personally I found PDP-11 far easier to use than either
strictly LE x86 or strictly BE 68k.

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