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Converting data between the two systems is sometimes referred to as the NUXI problem. Imagine the word UNIX stored in two 2-byte words. In a Big-Endian ...
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- 12-09-2005 #1Linux User
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Endianess article!
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quoted fromConverting data between the two systems is sometimes referred to as the NUXI problem. Imagine the word UNIX stored in two 2-byte words. In a Big-Endian systems, it would be stored as UNIX. In a little-endian system, it would be stored as NUXI.
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- 12-09-2005 #2Linux Newbie
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Yes this is correct. I don't get your question really.
Different processors (SPARC, Intel 86) have different architectures.
Some systems may not even have not have 8 bit bytes. Older Data General mainframes have 12 bit bytes.
- 12-23-2005 #3Linux Engineer
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Actually, the NUXI syndrome only(?) occurs with 16-bit machines, 32-bit big-endian systems would store UNIX as XINU. If you consider character storage, big-endian seems more logical, but if you consider the addressing of the least significant byte in the system little-endian has the "correct" answer.
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