[Python-Dev] Re: marshal / unmarshal

[David Robinow]

On 4/11/05, Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:

> Heh.  I have a vague half-memory of _some_ box that stored the two
> 4-byte "words" in an IEEE double in one order, but the bytes within
> each word in the opposite order.  It's always something ...
 I believe this was the Floating Instruction Set on the PDP 11/35.
The fact that it's still remembered 30 years later shows how unusual it was.