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Re: Where do byte orders come from

From	Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com>
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: Where do byte orders come from
Date	2020-07-27 20:45 -0400
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JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 09:05:38 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot
> <steveo@eircom.net> wrote:
> >On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 00:37:35 -0700 (PDT)
> >Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
> >
> >> It is true that a special technique, involving writing sideways, was used
> >> to write Hebrew scrolls to avoid the further-right portion of the right
> >> hand smearing the ink, so left-to-right writing does have one genuine
> >> advantage.
> >
> >	Only to the right handed, watch a left handed person writing
> >English some time, the hand position they have to use looks quite
> >uncomfortable.
> 
> That curved over for a left hander is when they were beaten as
> children for writing left handed. I don't have that. My mother had a
> rather one-sided conversation with my first grade teacher about that.
> 
> Years later I was at a high school on the east coast of the U.S. Left
> handed students wants to do the same way as me. The teacher told them
> they couldn't. 
> 
> I encountered this idiocy even in the year 2009. Some twit tried to
> claim me being left handed was the mark of the devil. I informed that
> person this wasn't the Dark Ages and their claim was nonsense.

This discussion reminds me of a 1970s/1980s era coffee mug cartoon captioned

	HIRE THE LEFT-HANDED, IT'S FUN TO WATCH THEM WRITE

but we live in more polite times, don't we?

-- 
Rich Alderson					  news@alderson.users.panix.com
      Audendum est, et veritas investiganda; quam etiamsi non assequamur,
	  omnino tamen proprius, quam nunc sumus, ad eam perveniemus.
									--Galen

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Re: Where do byte orders come from Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-07-24 03:51 -0700
  Re: Where do byte orders come from Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-07-24 03:54 -0700
    Re: Where do byte orders come from Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-07-24 04:00 -0700
    Re: Where do byte orders come from John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-07-24 15:54 +0000
      Re: Where do byte orders come from Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-07-24 09:23 -0700
      Re: Where do byte orders come from Gareth Evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2020-07-24 17:28 +0100
        Re: Where do byte orders come from Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-07-24 09:56 -0700
          Re: Where do byte orders come from Radey Shouman <shouman@comcast.net> - 2020-07-24 14:08 -0400
            Re: Where do byte orders come from robin.vowels@gmail.com - 2020-07-24 17:54 -0700
            Re: Where do byte orders come from Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-07-25 01:57 -0700
              Re: Where do byte orders come from Gareth Evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2020-07-25 11:57 +0100
                Re: Where do byte orders come from John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-07-25 17:23 +0000
                Re: Where do byte orders come from Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-07-25 11:39 -0700
                Re: Where do byte orders come from Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-07-25 14:43 -0700
                Re: Where do byte orders come from Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2020-07-25 22:21 +0000
                Re: Where do byte orders come from John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-07-25 22:49 +0000
                Re: Where does PDP-11 floating point come from John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-07-25 22:34 +0000
              Re: Where do byte orders come from Radey Shouman <shouman@comcast.net> - 2020-07-25 14:38 -0400
                Re: Where do byte orders come from Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-07-25 11:42 -0700
                Re: Where do byte orders come from Radey Shouman <shouman@comcast.net> - 2020-07-26 17:11 -0400
                Re: Where do byte orders come from Radey Shouman <shouman@comcast.net> - 2020-07-26 17:13 -0400
                Re: Where do byte orders come from Radey Shouman <shouman@comcast.net> - 2020-07-26 17:15 -0400
                Re: Where do byte orders come from Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-07-26 16:22 -0700
                Re: Where do byte orders come from Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-07-27 06:35 +0100
                Re: Where do byte orders come from Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-07-27 11:42 -0700
                Re: Where do byte orders come from JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2020-07-27 13:54 -0500
                Re: Where do byte orders come from Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-07-27 00:37 -0700
                Re: Where do byte orders come from Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-07-27 09:05 +0100
                Re: Where do byte orders come from "Kerr-Mudd,John" <notsaying@127.0.0.1> - 2020-07-27 11:27 +0000
                Re: Where do byte orders come from JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2020-07-27 10:27 -0500
                Re: Where do byte orders come from Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2020-07-27 20:45 -0400
                Re: Where do byte orders come from JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2020-07-28 09:24 -0500
                Re: Where do byte orders come from Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2020-07-28 17:30 +0000
                Re: Where do byte orders come from JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2020-07-28 15:56 -0500
                Re: Where do byte orders come from Andy Walker <anw@cuboid.co.uk> - 2020-07-27 22:34 +0100
                Re: Where do byte orders come from Andreas Eder <a_eder_muc@web.de> - 2020-08-02 12:00 +0200
                Re: Where do byte orders come from JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2020-08-02 14:02 -0500
                Re: Where do byte orders come from Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-08-02 15:03 -0700
                Re: Where do byte orders come from John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-08-02 22:59 +0000
                Re: Where do byte orders come from Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2020-08-03 06:57 +0000
                Re: Where do byte orders come from maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2020-08-08 22:21 +0000
                Re: Where do byte orders come from Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2020-08-09 16:50 -0400
                Re: Where do byte orders come from maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2020-08-10 23:07 +0000
                Re: Where do byte orders come from J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-08-10 19:14 -0400
                Re: How did byte order get to horses? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2020-08-10 20:39 -0400
                Re: How did byte order get to horses? J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-08-10 20:51 -0400
                Re: How did byte order get to horses? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2020-08-10 22:38 -0400
                Re: How did byte order get to horses? J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-08-10 22:50 -0400
                Re: How did byte order get to horses? robin.vowels@gmail.com - 2020-08-10 20:35 -0700
                Re: Where do byte orders come from Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2020-08-11 03:42 -0300
                Re: Where do byte orders come from Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-08-03 07:45 -0700
                Re: Where do byte orders come from JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2020-08-03 13:45 -0500
                Re: Where do byte orders come from Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2020-08-06 23:47 -0400
                Re: Where do byte orders come from Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2020-08-02 21:58 +0000
                Re: Where do byte orders come from Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-08-02 15:04 -0700
                Re: Where do byte orders come from Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-07-25 14:43 -0700
                Re: Where do byte orders come from John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-07-25 22:35 +0000
                Re: Where do byte orders come from Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2020-07-25 16:54 -0600
                Re: Where do byte orders come from Gareth Evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2020-07-26 09:43 +0100
                Re: Where do byte orders come from Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-07-26 05:54 -0700
          Re: Where do byte orders come from Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-07-25 02:03 -0700
            Re: Where do byte orders come from Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-07-25 10:54 +0100
              Re: Where do byte orders come from John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-07-25 17:25 +0000
        Re: Where do byte orders come from Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-07-24 10:32 -0700
          Re: Where do byte orders come from Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-07-24 11:45 -0700
            Re: Where do byte orders come from scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2020-07-24 19:32 +0000
              Re: Where do byte orders come from Richard Milward <rsmilward@gmail.com> - 2020-10-07 12:45 -0700
          Re: Where do byte orders come from Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-07-24 20:54 +0100
            Re: Where do byte orders come from Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-07-25 01:55 -0700
          Re: Where do byte orders come from Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2020-07-24 16:40 -0400
        Re: Where do byte orders come from John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-07-24 19:30 +0000
      Re: Where do byte orders come from Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-07-24 21:06 +0100

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