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From: w8sdz@rigel.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen)
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In my previous posting I wrote:
> Remember references to big indian versus little indian byte-order?

In respose I received via email:

ressler@cs.cornell.edu (Gene Ressler) writes:
> I've always heard it referred to as big-Endian vs. little-Endian.
> Machines where the most significant bits (big end) of a word occur in the
> first byte are the former and conversely...  Just another piece
> of mindless trivia.

raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen) writes:
> Unless this is a reference to something I'm not familiar with, perhaps
> you meant `big-endian' and `little-endian'.  The reference is to the
> paper by Jonathan Swift about the two countries who fought a war over
> whether one should places one's soft-boiled egg in the egg cup with
> the little end or the big end pointed upwards.

Gene, & Ray, thanks for correcting me.  Endian it is!

That's an interesting story about the soft-boiled egg.  :-)

I've seen some long and involved discussions on the net about big end
versus little end.

Keith
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