Nice you dug that up.

        Jochen

Marcus Denker <marcus at ira.uka.de> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 01:26:15AM -0700, Michael Rueger wrote:
> > 
> > wonder which architecture uses these:
> > 
> > http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/rl_img/onset_reloaded_sl7.jpg
> > 
> ;-) 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":
> 
> [...]