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[cahult]

MacWorld UK has an article where Microsoft says that Virtual PC is incompatible with Apple

[flap]

big- and little-endian refer to the order in which bytes are stored in memory. With big-endian architectures the most significant byte is stored first (lower in memory), with little-endian, it's stored last.

e.g. the number 258 as a 2 byte integer is stored in big-endian representation as
00000001 00000010

With little-endian it's
00000010 00000001

[cahult]

OK, thanks. Your explanation made it easier to understand the article.

[Laukev7]

Why are there two endians? What's so different about the order in which bytes are stored? Is one better than the other?

[suselinux]

quote:Originally posted by cahult:



The article says something about a thing called endians. What are these? Anyone care to enlighten me on this?

[ August 28, 2003: Message edited by: cahult ]

North American Natives

[hm_murdock]

or anyone of endian descent, typically from Endia.

p.s.: the incompatibility is actually IBM's fault if you wanna point fingers. they designed the 970. MS simply bought the existing VPC code and hired the dev team.

[ August 29, 2003: Message edited by: Jimmy James is COOL ]

[billy_gates]

quote:Originally posted by Jimmy James is COOL:
or anyone of endian descent, typically from Endia.

p.s.: the incompatibility is actually IBM's fault if you wanna point fingers. they designed the 970. MS simply bought the existing VPC code and hired the dev team.

[ August 29, 2003: Message edited by: Jimmy James is COOL ]

I think its connectix's fault.  They programmed it so specific for G4 and G3 that it doesn't work on G5's.  Where the just expecting Apple to stay on the G4 for the rest of time??
MS and Connectix should have seen this coming.

[Faust]

Er isnt Big vs Little Endian a Gullivers Travels reference?  Dude goes to an island, finds lots of tiny people fighting a war based on whether or not you cut off the little or big end of the egg before you eat it?

[flap]

Yes, that's where the terms come from.

[hm_murdock]

I thought it had something to do with Endia!!!!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! lol