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In article <1iinltINNi0l@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes) writes:
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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)
|> -- 
|> haynes@cats.ucsc.edu
|> haynes@cats.bitnet
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|> "Ya can talk all ya wanna, but it's dif'rent than it was!"
|> "No it aint!  But ya gotta know the territory!"
|>         Meredith Willson: "The Music Man"

You are correct about all humans not reading left to right.  I should have
said the humans who were developing and building those computers read left
to right.

As for Endianess matching the way cultures read, you may be partially correct.
I don't know the prefered Endianess in the computers used in those foreign
nations.  However that wouldn't explain why computers in western countries
use both Big and Little Endian, computers that were developed for western 
markets that read left to right.

/jack