Re: aren't standards wonderful?

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From: a... Andrew MacRae
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1990 01:24

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I got bitten once because the computer I was working on used the oppsite
naming convention for bits than I was used to.  I was accustomed to bit0
being the lowest order bit, but was using a machine where bit0 was defined
as the highest bit.  It took me a couple of hours to figure out why my
calls were all going south.

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Subject: Re: aren't standards wonderful?
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