26 Oct
2006
26 Oct
'06
8:36 p.m.
On Thursday 26 October 2006 16:34, der Mouse wrote:
SWAW?
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
'swab'
can be handy too (why isn't it 'swap'? Short for 'swap bytes'
maybe?)
My guess would be yes - from the PDP-11 opcode for byte-swapping a
16-bit value, SWAB.
Now if only it had another option to swap the halves of 32-bit
quantities....