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| DATE | 2005-08-23 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Re: GTM on OSX WAS: [Hardhats-members] more M read questions
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Can someone shead light on this for me?
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 00:27, jae kim wrote:
> ugghh, I didn't know the other thread was talking
> about reading files by M. It must be the longest thread,
> 69 emails so far. anyway, I stopped reading it after about 20.
> i'll wait until all the smart people figure out how to handle
> millions of patients worth of data file to convert from
> 32 bit big-endian to 64 bit little-endian machine.
>
What? I thought the file is stored the same no matter the OS or the
CPU. Its a function of the drive's internal firmware. All that matters
is to read it. It's not like a floppy.
Ruben
> j.
>
> On 8/22/05, jae kim wrote:
> > yes, i think so. I liked big-endian better because my
> > Fortran code never had to see Intel chip. Later I had to
> > write some apps to convert big-endian data (Irix) to be read
> > in little-endian supercomputer.
> >
> > Just googled this:
> > http://www.intersystems.com/cache/downloads/documentation/cache5docs/PDFS/ACVE_UsingCVEndian.pdf
> >
> > so, it (Cache) can be run on both big- and little-endian machines
> > but the database file itself
> > has to be converted first, if someone wants to read patient A's
> > file from hospital Y's Sparc by hospital Z's Windows XP server.
> > Somebody should write the code so converting to the different
> > endianism (reading files from different endian machine)
> > can be set up as a parameter at the execution time,
> > negating the above tool.
> > Sorry for the nagging... intersystem...
> >
> > Jae.
> >
> > On 8/22/05, Gregory Woodhouse wrote:
> > > I'm fairly certain the Alpha is big endian. In fact, I think pretty
> > > much everything except Intel is big endian.
> > >
> > > ===
> > > Gregory Woodhouse
> > > gregory.woodhouse-at-sbcglobal.net
> > >
> > > "It is foolish to answer a question that
> > > you do not understand."
> > > --G. Polya ("How to Solve It")
> > >
> > >
> > > On Aug 22, 2005, at 7:15 PM, jae kim wrote:
> > >
> > > > Is MUMPS + VistA used on any other big endian machine?
> > > > Just curious.
> > > >
> > > > J.
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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