z...@bendor.com.au wrote:
>
>>Oh yes, down in the land of Oz you have bats too, and sometimes they
>>cross-breed.
> They are perfect examples of the pre-electrical biological systems
> discovering the importance of grounding before EEs got around...
>>Darren Moore wrote:
>>
>>>Hi Nigel,
>>>
>>>My computer has heaps of WOM, I've been doing some cleaning up today
>>>and sending lots of file there...
>>>
>>>Darren
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>In the same spirit of agreement, and with the context of the original
>>>>post in mind, I would like to add that I think Freescale have as
>>>>little hope of going little endian as Signetics do of ever delivering
>>>>the ROM (Write-Only Memory). Does anybody else remember that one,
>>>>supposedly good for storing don't-care states and bit-buckets?
>>>>
>>>>cheers
>>>>Nigel
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
Freescale going Little Endian
Started by ●April 7, 2006
Reply by ●April 13, 20062006-04-13
Reply by ●April 13, 20062006-04-13
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 08:29:19 -0700
blewis999 wrote:
> This may have been posted before but wasn't the original Big-Endian
> versus Little-Endian controversy related to Gullivers travels. Two
> kingdoms had a war about which end of the egg should be broken and
> eaten first. The little end or the big end. I think it had something
> to do with the pointlessness of religious and political debates. The
> egg was the same in the middle.
Yes, Swift's satire is the origin of the endianness.
Zoltan
blewis999 wrote:
> This may have been posted before but wasn't the original Big-Endian
> versus Little-Endian controversy related to Gullivers travels. Two
> kingdoms had a war about which end of the egg should be broken and
> eaten first. The little end or the big end. I think it had something
> to do with the pointlessness of religious and political debates. The
> egg was the same in the middle.
Yes, Swift's satire is the origin of the endianness.
Zoltan
Reply by ●April 14, 20062006-04-14
Yes, great stuff.
....Eleven thousand Lilliputians were killed rather than break their
eggs at the smaller end, and the Big-Endians have been
made "incapable by Law of holding Employments,"....
There's a nice analysis at:
http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=17-08-034-f
Regards
Mark Butcher
www.mjbc.ch
Now lets get back to cutting our finders, while breaking the
Freescale egg at the right (wrong??) end...
--- In 6..., Zoltán Kócsi wrote:
>
> On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 08:29:19 -0700
> blewis999 wrote:
>
>
> > This may have been posted before but wasn't the original Big-
Endian
> > versus Little-Endian controversy related to Gullivers travels.
Two
> > kingdoms had a war about which end of the egg should be broken
and
> > eaten first. The little end or the big end. I think it had
something
> > to do with the pointlessness of religious and political debates.
The
> > egg was the same in the middle.
>
> Yes, Swift's satire is the origin of the endianness.
>
> Zoltan
>
....Eleven thousand Lilliputians were killed rather than break their
eggs at the smaller end, and the Big-Endians have been
made "incapable by Law of holding Employments,"....
There's a nice analysis at:
http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=17-08-034-f
Regards
Mark Butcher
www.mjbc.ch
Now lets get back to cutting our finders, while breaking the
Freescale egg at the right (wrong??) end...
--- In 6..., Zoltán Kócsi wrote:
>
> On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 08:29:19 -0700
> blewis999 wrote:
>
>
> > This may have been posted before but wasn't the original Big-
Endian
> > versus Little-Endian controversy related to Gullivers travels.
Two
> > kingdoms had a war about which end of the egg should be broken
and
> > eaten first. The little end or the big end. I think it had
something
> > to do with the pointlessness of religious and political debates.
The
> > egg was the same in the middle.
>
> Yes, Swift's satire is the origin of the endianness.
>
> Zoltan
>
