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- From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes)
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- Subject: Re: A theory for Big & Little Endian's origin
- Message-ID: <1iinltINNi0l@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 02:07:57 GMT
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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)
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