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From: mac@mrk.ardent.com (Michael McNamara)
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Subject: Re: "big endian" and "little endian" - first usage for computer
Keywords: dump little-endian strings
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Date: 20 Jan 89 21:40:18 GMT
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In article <1102@l.cc.purdue.edu> cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:

|There does not seem to be any support from "natural" languages for the
|little-endian approach.

	Four and twenty black birds, baked in a pie....
|-- 
|Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907
|Phone: (317)494-6054
|hrubin@l.cc.purdue.edu (Internet, bitnet, UUCP)

Michael McNamara 
  mac@ardent.com