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		CountHackulus on May 8, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Byte Order Fiasco Middle-endian is the only correct answer. It's a tradeoff between both little-endian and big-endian. The PDP-11 got it right.

ben509 on May 8, 2021 | [–]

Yup, we're all waiting for the rest of the world to catch up to MM/DD/YYYY.

gnufx on May 9, 2021 | [–]

I don't suppose it's being modified, but I wonder how much -11 code is still running, even on real hardware.

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