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