26 Nov
2014
26 Nov
'14
2:35 p.m.
On Wed, 26 Nov 2014, Noel Chiappa wrote:
Actually, the document which, AFAIK, introduced the
terms "big-endian" and
"little-endian" to the world of computers was "On Holy Wars and a Plea
For
Peace", by Danny Cohen (April, 1980):
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/ien/ien137.txt
and it makes explicit reference to Swift.
(There might have been a slightly earlier version of this note, but I'd have
to go check my hardcopies - something called 'Oceanview Tales' may have
included it.)
Swift had a helluva lotta nerve to imply that byte order wasn't very
important.