On 21.02.2016, at 08:14, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 12:26:01PM +0100, Tobias Pape wrote:
>> 
>> Well, If we had Squeak on a PDP-11, we would have also middle endian:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness#Middle-endian ;)
>> 
> 
> Thanks for that reference. I always wondered if byte orderings like that
> were ever used, and was not aware of the PDP-11 convention.
> 
> Dave 

Isn’t that similar to how we used to store Floats on little-endian machines before Cog?

- Bert -


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