grt@twitch.UUCP ( G.R.Tomasevich) (04/07/86)
> Sorry Bill, *you're* the one that's got backwards byte order. Little > Endian is `correct', even tho bucking historical convention. > (Root Boy) Jim Cottrell <rbj@cmr> The problem is older than that. We copied the Arabic convention of writing numbers from right to left, but not English text. If we could just go back and rewrite with the least significant digit on the left, or writing natural language from right to left, things would be consistent. Do the Israelis and Arabs have all these problems? -- George Tomasevich, ihnp4!twitch!grt AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ