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		jmclnx 3 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Origin of the Terms Big-Endian and Little-Endi... IIRC, Mark Williams Company had a patent on the ability to run the same binary on both big and little endian machines. https://patents.justia.com/assignee/mark-williams-company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Williams_Company I wonder what happened to it and why could Linux not use it. I think it was released under a free licence.

rep_lodsb 3 days ago [–]

That just describes using conversion routines for data, after loading and before storing to some standardized on-disk / network format.

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