[ih] byte order, was Octal vs Hex, not Re: Dotted decimal notation

[John Levine]

In article <cb2f590a-78ca-5fd0-0676-db996dd9d30f at dcrocker.net> you write:
>On 12/30/2020 7:46 AM, Clem Cole via Internet-history wrote:
>> His two main grad students at CMU were Harold McFarland and Bill Strecker,
>> and much of the original work on the PDP-11 was done there.
>
>So 3 people did the work.  No wonder they settled on octal.

I guess we should be grateful it wasn't ternary.

R's,
John