[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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