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Old 01-19-2011, 03:51 AM   #41
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Originally Posted by twowheels View Post
As a software developer (like you) I found it very interesting when I encountered the word "big-endian" at location 540 in Gulliver's Travels (free BTW, you can download it to see it in context and jump to location 540)... it caused me to wonder if that was the origin of the word in computer science, if it was a play on words... some research after finding it there confirmed my suspicion.
Yes, the terms "big-endian" and "little-endian", as used to refer to the byte ordering in CPUs, do come from "Gulliver's Travels".
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