>>> Middle-endian FTW!!!! >> That makes me wonder: was there any hardware that used an endianness >> such that conversion didn't loop with period 2? > Not quite the same thing but weren't longwords on the PDP-11 > little-endian for the bytes within the word but big-endian for words > within the longword?
Yes. As I said in the very next paragraph, > Conversion between PDP11-endian (0x87654321 stored as 0x65 0x87 0x21 > 0x43) and [...] /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
