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It's even worse trying to explain Gulliver's Travels (and the origin of Endianness) to engineers that do know it in the data-storage sense.
by acallan 13y ago
It's even worse trying to explain Gulliver's Travels (and the origin of Endianness) to engineers that do know it in the data-storage sense.
- jackpirate 13y agoPlease try. I've no idea what you're talking about.
- acallan 13y agoJonathon Swift's "Gulliver's Travels", a satire of 18th century England, included in it a long-running bloody war between two religious sects that started over the correct way to eat a soft-boiled egg: the big end, or the little end. For those not familiar with the history of England, the tome of Western literature (and the genre of satire), or soft-boiled eggs, I've gotten some confused looks when trying to explain this origin. Plus, it doesn't really add anything at all to the understand of endianness in the computer hardware sense.
- easytiger 13y agoSpeaking of which I think this is one of my fav papers to read from an historical computing pov: ON HOLY WARS AND A PLEA FOR PEACE - Danny Cohen 1 April 1980 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/ien/ien137.txt http://www.ietf.org/rfc/ien/ien137.txt