[net.works] Byte Order

ron%brl-vgr@sri-unix.UUCP (01/09/84)

From:      Ron Natalie <ron@brl-vgr>

For a rather length discussion on this read Danny Cohen's
"ON HOLY WARS AND A PLEA FOR PEACE"

This is available by anonymous FTP from SRI-NIC.
The file is "<IEN>IEN-137.TXT".

My favorite has always been the Berkeley UNIX manual page for the
byte swapping routines.  The "BUGS" entry states "The VAX handles
bytes backwards from most everyone else in the world.  This is
not expected to be fixed in the near furture."

-Ron