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2005.05.26 19:38 "Re: Jpeg and YCbCr", by Chris Losinger
> It doesn't require a certain word size.
>
> Windows prefers everything as BGR, while other OSes prefer RGB.
> Anything that is a multiple of 8 bits is subject to byte order rules (I
> have yet to see a 96 bit word CPU, either - but extended precision
> floating point is also subject to byte order).
but BGR and RGB isn't a byte-order issue, like the Intel/Motorola thing.
well, let me restate that: i'd be very surprised to learn that
Microsoft went with BGR because the early Intel CPUs cared about the order
of the bytes in certain 24-bit data structures.
-c
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