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Re: Patent on a standard-byte order for intermachine communication

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From: Gabriel
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1991 19:23
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   My only complaint is against those who feel that the idea is to
   OBVIOUS.  Yes, it is simple and a beautiful solution to the problem.
   But how many figured it out for themselves??  Like many of the BEST
   ideas, it's only to obvious once you know it.

I'd heard of the byte-ordering problem before, and without hearing also
the solution, just assumed that reversing the bytes would be the
solution, because to me it's pretty damn obvious.  I'd never thought
that that was the actual solution, because I assumed that (1) reversing
order was too obvious, and that (2) there surely must be a better way.

(1+ number_of_people_whose_eyeballs_leaped_out_of_their_eyesockets_when_they_read_about_this_patent)
--
Raul Acevedo
acevedo@athena.mit.edu

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From: acevedo@athena.mit.edu (Gabriel)
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Subject: Re: Patent on a standard-byte order for intermachine communication
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