Apparently big/little endian comes from Gulliver's travels. I just learned this from page 45 of the POWER9 ISA spec that that I'm idly reading while the youngest kid refuses to sleep. At least the spec is 1258 pages so I won't run out of things to read if this keeps up
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Not sure if I ever read it, and if I did it was likely in a Swedish translation long before I had to deal with the intricacies of memory storage. Still surprised I never heard of it at some other point though
I read it age ~20 after someone told me that I reminded them of the inhabitants of Laputa. (They have mastered science and technology, but are unable to put it to practical use and their society failing because nobody does the basic work needed to keep everything running.)
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I haven't read it since I was about 15... So it's been a while. Probably worth a rereading. I remember enjoying it!
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I did enjoy the stories. But I wasn't very impressed with how they were told. (It may be intentionally written this way as it's written as Gulliver's own account, and presumably he is not a great author. :)
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Hahaha. I recognize that description too. :)
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The Big-Endian/Little-Endian controversy reflects, in a much simplified form, British quarrels over religion. ... a Catholic (Big-Endian) country ... Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603) had converted most of the country to Protestantism (Little-Endianism) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilliput_and_Blefuscu#Satirical_interpretations …
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