[OT]Big endian eggs

Yoshiki Ohshima Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org
Mon Aug 25 17:36:25 UTC 2003


  Piers,

  Now, it is really off-topic...

> Not that the Dark Ages were actually backwards, just that stuff
> didn't tend to get written down. Take a look at the technology
> involved in making, say, a Saxon sword (which used essentially the
> same techniques as were developed centuries later in Japan to make
> Samurai swords) or the quality of work in things like the Ardagh
> Chalice.

  What century you are talking about?  (And what is
"Samurai swords", I should ask.)

-- Yoshiki



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