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Dr. Bill's Notes on "Little Endian" vs. "Big Endian" (605 words) |
 | "Little Endian" means that the low-order byte of the number is stored in memory at the lowest address, and the high-order byte at the highest address. |
| You may see a lot of discussion about the relative merits of the two formats, mostly religious arguments based on the relative merits of the PC versus the Mac. |
| Also, because of the 1:1 relationship between address offset and byte number (offset 0 is byte 0), multiple precision math routines are correspondingly easy to write. |
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ioag-base-00.txt (9472 words) |
| Errors that occur during preparation of messages by the BASE protocol object are announced to the partner node by means of a state field in the message header. |
| A BASE link is a direct connection between two BASE nodes (between a peer and a mex node, or between two mexes), initiated by the peer node (in case of a peer-to-mex link) or either mex (in case of a mex-to-mex link). |
| BASE flow-level Messages This section discusses the messages that are used to open and close a BASE flow and to perform transactions via such flows. |
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