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GUEST,highlandman at work Tech: what does  mean? (31) RE: Tech: what does  mean? 23 Apr 12

I love this place!
It just occurred to me that perhaps the first culture to deal with the Big Endian / Little Endian problem was ancient Egypt.
Hieroglyphs can be written either way, left-right or the opposite. The way you can tell is that the pictures of animate objects (like the ubiquitous falcon glyph) face toward the beginning of the sentence.
Amazing what you can learn at the 'cat.
-Glenn

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