Middle-endian FTW!!!!
That makes me wonder: was
there any hardware that used an endianness
such that conversion didn't loop with period 2?
Not quite the same thing but
weren't longwords on the PDP-11
little-endian for the bytes within the word but big-endian for words
within the longword?
Yes. As I said in the very next paragraph,
Conversion between PDP11-endian (0x87654321 stored as
0x65 0x87 0x21
0x43) and [...]
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