2007-11-30 07:59:34 Botherder arrested in New Zealand... this guy wrote it up better even if I beat him to it.
There's some stuff about this on the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7120251.stm/ which is the stuff I linked to.
Before Intel's marketing guys got hold of it, the byte order in a mainframe or a Motorola CPU was known as "normal", as the bytes are in the order people usually think of them - Most Significant first. The Intel one was known as "Byte Swapped".
I can never remember which end of my egg I should eat first, so avoid Intel's terms.
In their favour, I think byteswapped actually works better - it's just not what most people do.
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2007-11-30 07:59:34 Botherder arrested in New Zealand... this guy wrote it up better even if I beat him to it. There's some stuff about this on the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7120251.stm/ which is the stuff I linked to.
Before Intel's marketing guys got hold of it, the byte order in a mainframe or a Motorola CPU was known as "normal", as the bytes are in the order people usually think of them - Most Significant first. The Intel one was known as "Byte Swapped".
I can never remember which end of my egg I should eat first, so avoid Intel's terms.
In their favour, I think byteswapped actually works better - it's just not what most people do.
Sonic announced this deal with your favourite company Macrovision last October: http://www.sonic.com/about/press/news/2006/10/secu reDVD.aspx
Now here's a coincidence. Two Royal Navy experts with the same initials!
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I have a book by N A M Rodger "The Command of the Ocean".
http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9