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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