Who's rewired their house for this hobby?

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Wed Nov 26 14:30:59 CST 2014


    > From: Guy Sotomayor

    > The terms long pre-dated modern digital computers.

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.)

	Noel


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