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From: daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: comp.unix.questions comp.misc
Message-ID: <1989Jun22.211426.16621@marob.masa.com>
Date: 22 Jun 89 21:14:26 GMT
Reply-To: daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond)
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There was a recent article inquiring about the origin of the "endianism"
(as in little endian and big endian).

For those interested, I dug out a recent repost of Danny Cohen's paper
_ON HOLY WARS AND A PLEA FOR PEACE_.  This paper entertainingly details
both the literal origins of the terminology, and the machine byte ordering
differences to which these terms apply.

If you would like a copy of this paper, drop me a note via email.
If many people request copies, I'll repost the article to comp.misc.

--
Dave Hammond
daveh@marob.masa.com