Re: A theory for Big & Little Endian's origin

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From: Jim Haynes
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 02:07

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In article <1iig7aINNtc@spim.mti.sgi.com> jackc@vermont.mti.sgi.com (Jack Choquette) writes:
>For reasons explained in previous posts, humans (who read left to right)
Well, now, some of them do and some of them don't.  How about Big Endian
for the West, and Little Endian for the East (starting at Israel and
the Arab nations and going to Japan)
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From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes)
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Subject: Re: A theory for Big & Little Endian's origin
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