peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) (12/03/90)
Request for a bit of trivia. The term "byte sex" is used to indicate endian-ness: "That data's in the wrong byte sex", or "MIPS processors can be either byte sex: they're bytesexual". Kind of obscure these days. Question: which byte-sex corresponds to which? I think female is little endian, like PDP-11s and Intels, but I don't know for sure. Is there a standard for byte sex? (visions of an ANSI-standard Kama Sutra, X3J69 :->) -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com
jeffd@ficc.ferranti.com (jeff daiell) (12/03/90)
In article <V7Z7JLF@xds13.ferranti.com>, peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > Request for a bit of trivia. The term "byte sex" is used to indicate > endian-ness: "That data's in the wrong byte sex", or "MIPS processors > can be either byte sex: they're bytesexual". Kind of obscure these > days. > > Question: which byte-sex corresponds to which? I think female is little > endian, like PDP-11s and Intels, but I don't know for sure. Is there a > standard for byte sex? > > (visions of an ANSI-standard Kama Sutra, X3J69 :->) Peter, I just hope this posting doesn't en-gender an argument! {|8^)] Jeff -- Have you heard about the firm called Hugs, Incorporated? It's a holding company!
zweig@cs.uiuc.edu (Johnny Zweig) (12/03/90)
peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >Request for a bit of trivia. The term "byte sex" is used to indicate >endian-ness: "That data's in the wrong byte sex", or "MIPS processors >can be either byte sex: they're bytesexual". Kind of obscure these >days. >Question: which byte-sex corresponds to which? I think female is little >endian, like PDP-11s and Intels, but I don't know for sure. Is there a >standard for byte sex? As with all talks about sex, there are only two things to keep in mind: BIG and LITTLE. (That's what _she_ said....) I have never heard male/female with respect to byte-gender -- just big (ooh baby) and little (it's not size that matters).....