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   MitchAlsup to All   
   Re: Linus Torvalds on bad architectural    
   28 Dec 25 17:43:25   
   
   From: user5857@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=  posted:   
      
   > On Sun, 12 Oct 2025 16:11:27 GMT, MitchAlsup wrote:   
   >   
   > > Top to bottom works for Japanese and Chinese. Yet I hear not   
   > > appetite for TB byte order.   
   >   
   > There is no “top” or “bottom” or “left” or “right” in   
   memory. There   
   > are only addresses (bit numbers and byte numbers).   
      
   In order to stop the BE::LE war, one could always do a Middle Endian   
   bit/Byte order. You start in the middle and each step goes right-then-left.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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