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Article #12538Re: big + little endian (was: Comparison of Alpha, MIPS ..)
From: Volker Herminghaus-Shirai
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:30
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:30
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In article <CARLTON.93Jan7171924@scws1.harvard.edu> carlton@scws1.harvard.edu
(david carlton) writes:
> In article <FY.93Jan7111925@hardwick.lucid.com>, fy@lucid.com (Frank Yellin)
writes:
>
> > Of course, how were numbers done in ancient Greek. It was written in
> > boustrophedon: the lines alternated left-to-right and right-to-left.
>
> Some rather old writings were written boustrophedon, but I wouldn't
> present it as the norm.
Why not? IMHO the boustrophedonicity of a written document has nothing
ni egaugnal yna etirw nac ouy .e.i , egaugnal eht htiw reveostahw od ot
a boustrophedonic way. More than that, one might even put composed glyphs
(-: yaw siht
Volker
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!olivea!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!Germany.EU.net!incom!orfeo!qb!vhs From: vhs@rhein-main.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: big + little endian (was: Comparison of Alpha, MIPS ..) Message-ID: <1993Jan11.153013.716@qb.rhein-main.de> Date: 11 Jan 93 15:30:13 GMT References: <CARLTON.93Jan7171924@scws1.harvard.edu> Sender: vhs@qb.rhein-main.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai) Reply-To: vhs@rhein-main.de Lines: 23