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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!spool.mu.edu!caen!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!husc-news.harvard.edu!husc-news!carlton
  2. From: carlton@scws1.harvard.edu (david carlton)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.arch
  4. Subject: Re: big + little endian (was: Comparison of Alpha, MIPS ..)
  5. Message-ID: <CARLTON.93Jan7171924@scws1.harvard.edu>
  6. Date: 8 Jan 93 01:19:24 GMT
  7. References: <1992Dec29.044012.1@cc.curtin.edu.au> 
  8.  <3623363@zl2tnm.gen.nz><WAYNE.92Dec30093950@backbone.uucp><markg.79.726169747@
  9.  county.lmt.mn.org> <1993Jan6.171242.2895@lsl.co.uk><RABIN.93Jan7132015@nuthatch.CS.Yale.Edu> <FY.93Jan7111925@hardwick.lucid.com>
  10. Organization: Citizens for Boysenberry Jam
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  13. In-reply-to: fy@lucid.com's message of 7 Jan 93 11:19:25
  14.  
  15. In article <FY.93Jan7111925@hardwick.lucid.com>, fy@lucid.com (Frank Yellin) writes:
  16.  
  17. > Of course, how were numbers done in ancient Greek.  It was written in
  18. > boustrophedon:  the lines alternated left-to-right and right-to-left.
  19.  
  20. Some rather old writings were written boustrophedon, but I wouldn't
  21. present it as the norm.
  22.  
  23. david carlton
  24. carlton@husc.harvard.edu
  25.  
  26.        YOW!!  I'm in a very clever and adorable INSANE ASYLUM!!
  27.