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   MitchAlsup to All   
   Re: Linus Torvalds on bad architectural    
   28 Dec 25 21:34:10   
   
   From: user5857@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   Bill Findlay  posted:   
      
   > On 28 Dec 2025, Lawrence DĀ“Oliveiro wrote   
   > (in article <10ipsi8$3ssi3$4@dont-email.me>):   
   >   
   > > 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).   
   >   
   > Priceless!   
   > (I needed a good laugh.)   
      
   I always put higher addresses higher on my drawings than lower addresses.   
   So top -> Address = 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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