And now that we got this let's go back to the roots for real. Why do we
actually write numbers big-endian? ;-)

Cheers,
  - Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> Behalf Of Alan Kay
> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 7:14 PM
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Subject: Re: [OT]Big endian eggs
> 
> 
> Now, let's check the next part of this important knowledge. Who was 
> it that came up with the Swiftian terms "big- and little- endian" to 
> apply to computers? And roughly when?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alan
> 
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> At 7:32 AM -0700 8/22/03, Michael Rueger wrote:
> >Marcus Denker wrote:
> >
> >>;-) But did you know that the terms big- and little- endian were 
> >>used for eggs originally?  They come frome Part I, Chapter 4 of 
> >>Jonathan Swifts's "Gullivers Travels":
> >
> >No I didn't!
> >See, that's what you get when you are non-native speaker and read 
> >these books in German as a kid ;-)
> >
> >Michael
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