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Article #288Endianism (was Unicode vs ISO DIS 10646)
From: Jim Williams
Date: Sat, 04 May 1991 17:43
Date: Sat, 04 May 1991 17:43
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In article <ENAG.91May3200814@maud.ifi.uio.no> enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) writes: >In article <10003@plains.NoDak.edu> kkim@plains.NoDak.edu (kyongsok kim) writes: >> could anyone please explain what "endianism" is? > >[Explaination of endianism deleted.] I will just add that the terms "big endian" and "little endian" probably originated as references the Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift. The Liliputians and Blefescuans (right? I forget the names, exactly) were having a war over whether one should open one's eggs at the big end or the little end. The futility of such an argument makes a good analogy to the futility of trying to decide which byte ordering scheme is better. Jim Spoken: Jim Williams Domain: williams@nssdcs.gsfc.nasa.gov Phone: +1 301 286-1131 UUCP: uunet!mimsy!williams USPS: NASA/GSFC, Code 933, Greenbelt, MD 20771 Motto: There is no 'd' in "kluge"! It rhymes with "huge", not "sludge".
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ukma!dftsrv!nssdcs!williams From: williams@nssdcs.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Williams) Newsgroups: comp.std.internat Subject: Endianism (was Unicode vs ISO DIS 10646) Message-ID: <5204@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> Date: 4 May 91 17:43:32 GMT References: <10003@plains.NoDak.edu> <ENAG.91May3200814@maud.ifi.uio.no> Sender: news@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov Reply-To: williams@nssdcs.UUCP (Jim Williams) Organization: NSSDC Greenbelt Md. Lines: 20