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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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>Now they want to list out the contents of their memory.  Being human,
>they do it top to bottom, in ascending order so you can read the 
>characters and text stored there:
>	     Location	Bit Value  Ascii
>		0	01001110     H      {I know these are not the correct}
>		1	10100010     E      {  ascii values}
>		2	00010111     L
>		3	00010111     L
>		4	11110111     0
>So text and programs are stored in order of ascending memory locations.

Jack, are you a software person by training?


The reason I ask is something that was noticed where I work.


I have found that just about every hardware engineer at work will
list address 0 at the bottom of a picture.  Almost every software
engineer puts address 0 at the top.

Just how general is this trend?  Anyone observe the opposite?  I'm
wondering if it is just the people I have talked too (mostly ex-CDC),
regional (almost the same for here), or more wide spread than that?

Email would be fine...I doubt there is much general interest in trivia
like this.


-Bret
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