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

[Chuck Guzis]

On 12/08/2016 05:08 PM, dwight wrote:
> Not meaning to throw things to far off but on my
> 
> NC4000 machine( 16 bit ), I found ByteSwap useful enough that I had it
> 
> hard wired.
> 
> I have an old computer that was intended to do FFTs. It has a
> 
> complete bit order swap, MSB to LSB, instruction.

Well, there's the PowerPC "endian" mode (settable in the MSR)--but it's
just "sort of"--the little-endian mode simply XORs the lower 3 bits of
the address with 111 (i.e. "flips them").

--Chuck