Who's rewired their house for this hobby?

[Fred Cisin]

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.