Bit twiddling

[Dave Thompson]

LSB first (see CCITT V.24) <g>. That one I /do/ remember, I was
programming async serial comms for a long time...

I never saw the CCITT one, but once did the ANSI (X3) equivalent
(which I believe was also FIPSed back when those mattered). It was
rather amusing because it had all the structure of any X3 standard:
identification of sponsor and participants in development, rules for
applicability, name and address of the secretariat, etc., totalling
about a page, but the substantive content was one short sentence,
something like "The order of bit transmission of ASCII on a serial
interface shall be least to most significant."

- David.Thompson1 at worldnet.att.net