Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 24 Oct 1998 20:58:58 +0200 (MEST) | From | Hans Lermen <> | Subject | Re: ARMS WAVING!!! Proposal to fix /proc dainbrammage. |
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On 23 Oct 1998, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > That's bigendian (the high-order digit comes first, or to the left, > because Latin-script text is L->R.) That happens to be pretty much > the only reason why some computers unfortunately use the same ordering > in memory.
right, and to note: the people who invented our number scheme, the Arabs, are writing from R->L. So the 'natural' endianess is the little one;-)
Hans <lermen@fgan.de>
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