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- From: carlton@scws8.harvard.edu (david carlton)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: big + little endian (was: Comparison of Alpha, MIPS ..)
- Message-ID: <CARLTON.93Jan11150212@scws8.harvard.edu>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 23:02:12 GMT
- Article-I.D.: scws8.CARLTON.93Jan11150212
- References: <CARLTON.93Jan7171924@scws1.harvard.edu> <1993Jan11.153013.716@qb.rhein-main.de>
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- In-reply-to: vhs@rhein-main.de's message of Mon, 11 Jan 93 15:30:13 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan11.153013.716@qb.rhein-main.de>, vhs@rhein-main.de
- (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai) writes:
- >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?
-
- Because it's not true. It's very simple, really - I could be
- mistaken, but I'm fairly sure that the vast majority of writings in
- Ancient Greek were not written boustrophedon. Therefore, it is false
- to say that they were.
-
- Not that this has much to do with computer architecture, mind you...
-
- david carlton
- carlton@husc.harvard.edu
-
- .. I feel.. JUGULAR..
-