26 Jan
2010
26 Jan
'10
7:24 p.m.
Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 09:35:19AM -0500, Jason McBrien wrote:
I'm not sure when the war started (earlier one might expect) but there was a
major battle back in the late-70's/early-80's when portable operating systems
and networking were in vogue, and programmers had to account for both orders
within the same code. Danny Cohen's paper "On Holy Wars And a Plea For
Peace"
(1980) was one result:
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OnHolyWarsAndaPleaForPeace
http://www.rdrop.com/~cary/html/endian_faq.html
or numerous other links
(I prefer little-endian as it is mathematically consistent, while big-endian is
the result of a disparate mixture of cultural artifacts.)
QBus vs Unibus
VT100 vs 3270
OS/370 vs VAX/VMS
SPARC vs MIPS (vs Alpha)
:)
Was there ever a big endian vx little endian war?