On 2007-12-17, at 13:31, Phil Pennock wrote:
The Americans went "we're replacing a name with a number, that's
all, so
Dec 17th, 2007 becomes 12-17-2007" whereas everyone else went
"mixing up
ascending and descending numbers like that is something only those
people who, years from now, will design the PDP computers will
think is
right; that's crazy and wrong".
All of which is why I use the (military, I believe) "DD-MMM-[CC]YY"
format when writing dates casually.
The only mixed-endianness in the PDP-11 was in floating point, and I
don't think it was a factor until the 11/70 came out: the older
floating point processor was a completely incompatible memory-mapped
design. So I don't think it's fair to say that the people who
designed the PDP-11 thought it was right... the FP-11 was a box
thrown over the wall from another planet.
Planet Hate.
