26 Nov
2014
26 Nov
'14
11:46 a.m.
On Nov 26, 2014, at 11:31 AM, Holm Tiffe <holm at
freibergnet.de> wrote:
Part I of the story from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726).
Two countries were at war (Lilliput & Blefuscu) over which end of the egg to open (big
vs little). The Lilliputians were "little-endian" while the Blefuscians were
"big-endian". And that my friends is the first instance of the difference
between big-endian and little endian! The terms long pre-dated modern digital computers.
TTFN - Guy
To me, it seems that this is a Lilliput-versus-Blefuscu argument.
--Chuck
Sorry, who the f.. is Blefuscu?