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- 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)
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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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- Volker Herminghaus-Shirai (vhs@qb.rhein-main.de), NeXTmail welcome
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