On 14-apr-05, at 15:08, David Robinow wrote: > On 4/11/05, Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Heh. I have a vague half-memory of _some_ box that stored the two >> 4-byte "words" in an IEEE double in one order, but the bytes within >> each word in the opposite order. It's always something ... > I believe this was the Floating Instruction Set on the PDP 11/35. > The fact that it's still remembered 30 years later shows how unusual > it was. I think it was actually "logical", because all PDP-11s (there were 2 or 3 FPU instructionsets/architecture in the family IIRC) stored 32 bit integers in middle-endian (high-order word first, but low-order byte first). But note that neither of the PDP-11 FPUs were IEEE, that was a much later invention. At least, I didn't come across it until much later:-) -- Jack Jansen, <Jack.Jansen at cwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma Goldman
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