From: ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com   
      
   MitchAlsup wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   That is pretty much what DEC did on their   
   PDP-11 and VAX floating point values.   
   (Its what happens when you plug HW designed for   
   BE into a LE bus and don't rearrange the wires.)   
      
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