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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 ]
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