[OT]Big endian eggs
Alan Kay
Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Fri Aug 22 17:14:03 UTC 2003
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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