Odd "endianness" [was Re: RE: Base 64 posts to the list]

[David Bridgham]

On 12/05/2016 11:51 AM, Mouse wrote:
>> 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?