[net.lang] Inconsistent bit addressing

gnu@sun.uucp (John Gilmore) (09/06/84)

I'm really surprised that none of the Arpanauts in these newsgroups have
posted a copy of IEN 134 by Danny Cohen of USC-ISI.  It's an Internet
Experiment Note entitled "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace" and concerns
bit ordering issues throughout computerdom.  It's the best explanation
of the problem (including the evolution of PDP-11 and Vax byte ordering
botches) I've seen anywhere.

Does someone have a machine readable copy somewhere?
If so, MAIL IT TO ME and I will post exactly one copy (!).

	John Gilmore, sun!gnu@Berkeley.arpa

brahms@trwspp.UUCP (09/10/84)

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>> I'm really surprised that none of the Arpanauts in these newsgroups have
>> posted a copy of IEN 134 by Danny Cohen of USC-ISI.  It's an Internet
>> Experiment Note entitled "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace" and concerns
>> bit ordering issues throughout computerdom.  It's the best explanation of
>> the problem (including the evolution of PDP-11 and Vax byte ordering
>> botches) I've seen anywhere.

>> Does someone have a machine readable copy somewhere?
>> If so, MAIL IT TO ME and I will post exactly one copy (!).

>> John Gilmore, sun!gnu@Berkeley.arpa

But it was posted.  Sometime in Jan. I believe.  Anyway, I'll send you a
copy of it separatly.  Only post it, however, if there is enough demand
since it is over 35k characters long and since it was already posted.

			-- Brad Brahms
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