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Article #73863Re: Patent on a standard-byte order for intermachine communication
From: Gabriel
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1991 19:23
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 "Remember, Information is not knowledge; Knowledge is not Wisdom; Wisdom is not truth; Truth is not beauty; Beauty is not love; Love is not music; Music is the best." - Frank Zappa
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,9a4c815047ed049b X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-07-17 22:19:42 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!fauern!ira.uka.de!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!acevedo From: acevedo@athena.mit.edu (Gabriel) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Patent on a standard-byte order for intermachine communication Message-ID: <ACEVEDO.91Jul17152311@hydrox-cookie.mit.edu> Date: 17 Jul 91 19:23:17 GMT References: <gnusenet9107131607.AA14833@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <1727@opus.NMSU.Edu> <709@silence.princeton.nj.us> <1738@opus.NMSU.Edu> Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 21 In-Reply-To: sitze@nmsu.edu's message of 17 Jul 91 16:05:38 GMT