Re:Byte Ordering: On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace (1980)
by USiBqidmOOkAqRb on Monday September 16, 2024 @07:48AM
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Silly aside: I didn't read the book and was very confused for a long time since I assumed endian meant the specified byte goes last.
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Re:Byte Ordering: On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace (1980)
by djbusby on Monday September 16, 2024 @08:22AM
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Little End In (first) == little endian.
Re:Byte Ordering: On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace (1980)
by dcminter on Monday September 16, 2024 @09:34AM
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It may be a handy mnemonic, but it's not the etymology (you may know this, but I can't resist the pedantic opportunity!)
It comes from Swift's satire about egg eaters. The end in question was the small or large end of the egg and Big Endians broke the big end with the spoon - i.e. it went into the egg cup small end down.
The -ian suffix here is analogous to Christ-ian or Keynes-ian and has nothing to do with "in".