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Re:Byte Ordering: On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace (1980) by evnix on Monday September 16, 2024 @04:57AM (#41554113)
Read it from a tiny screen, you will realise why it is a bad idea.
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Re:Byte Ordering: On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace (1980) by 082349872349872 on Monday September 16, 2024 @05:22AM (#41554259)
Reading from a tiny screen being the root bad idea.
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Re:Byte Ordering: On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace (1980) by nine_k on Monday September 16, 2024 @05:46AM (#41554381)
I remember using physical screens that only had 64 or even 40 columns. (A printout was more practical for reading anyway. Just tolerate a few minutes of dot-matrix noise.)
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Re:Byte Ordering: On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace (1980) by kps on Monday September 16, 2024 @11:22AM (#41556990)
It wasn't meant to be read from a screen. (A browser doesn't show the Form Feed character at each page number.)
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