Re: BCD, was Concertina IV Has Arrived

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Sujet : Re: BCD, was Concertina IV Has Arrived
De : tkoenig (at) *nospam* netcologne.de (Thomas Koenig)
Groupes : comp.arch
Date : 02. Jun 2026, 19:25:12
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MitchAlsup <user5857@newsgrouper.org.invalid> schrieb:
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quadi <quadibloc@ca.invalid> posted:
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On Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0100, John Dallman wrote:
 
Brooks and Blaauw, two of the S/360 architects, consider the subject in
their much later book _Computer Architecture_, on p. 99:
 
  "The more logical convention, the Big Endian, considers the whole
  storage space as one steam of bits. Bits, bytes and words are numbered
  from left to right, following the convention of writing in Western
  culture."
 
On the other hand, Arabic is written from right to left, and yet the Arabs
also write numbers with the most significant digit on the left. Hence,
little-endian would seem more logical to them for the same reason.
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Chinese and Japanese is written top to bottom ...

In classical times, yes, but modern texts are written left to right.

 
Since this is, therefore, a cultural matter, and not something universal,
like the laws of physics or mathematics, we can't tell what a man from
Mars would prefer.
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Middle endian!! Start in the middle and then one step left followed by
one step write--more or less like PDP-11 FP.

Very Turing machine-like.

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