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In article <1iig7aINNtc@spim.mti.sgi.com> jackc@vermont.mti.sgi.com (Jack Choquette) writes:
>
>To me it seems like different endianess came about because of the way
>humans like to see things listed out.  When humans make a list, they
>like to make and read it top to bottom:
>		0  ******
>		1  ******
>		2  ******
>		 etc.
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I remember reading (and I'll hunt down the title if you'd like) that
IBM's endedness came from a mechanical memory device that was something
like a wheel.  For the bytes to be read in in the proper order for
processing the lower order had to come first.  They stuck with it due
to their standards of backwards compatibility.  I don't recall them
bringing in any linguists :)


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