Uses of \\"short\\" ?

Bill Crews bc at cyb-eng.UUCP
Wed Oct 23 03:04:51 AEST 1985


> I chose little endian because thats what most networks seem to use (as
> opposed to IBM or Motorola CPUs).

The DARPA protocols (TCP/IP) are perhaps the most widely-used among Unix
systems.  Network byte order for these protocols is big-endian.
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