Little Endians and Big Endians! (was Re: Problem!)

[Yuki Cuss]

Vram wrote:

>On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 18:45 +1100, Peter Garrett wrote:
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>>On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 11:01:14 +0800
>>"Michael T. Richter" <ttmrichter at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>Damn!  I'm hard-pressed to think of *any* argument more f-ing ludicrous
>>>than "top vs. bottom posting"!  This puts holy wars over OTB style to
>>>shame for utter nonsense!
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>>Welcome to the world ;=)
>>You might not have noticed, but silly arguments seem to happen in every
>>group or community.
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>>The top vs. bottom posting one (which has been raging for years, not
>>just here) reminds me of Swift's satire of Protestant vs, Catholic in
>>"Gulliver's Travels", where he describes the wars between those who prefer
>>to crack their eggs at the little or big end.
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>The little end of course..
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>Vram
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I think you'll find that the Internet is disposed to the big end; hence, 
why `network order' is MSB first!
 - yuki.
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