From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2006-09-23T02:32:24+09:00
Subject: Re: 64-bit integers in network byte-order

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On 9/22/06, Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/22/06, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
> > > Sorry, I really can't resist this. Do you know who the big-endians an=
d
> > > the little-endians are in literary history?
> >
> > no.  do tell...
> >
>
> In Gulliver's Travels, a "little-endian" prefers to crack open
> soft-boiled eggs from the little end. The little-endians and the
> big-endians are unable to settle their dispute, so they go to war. The
> story has reacquired its piquancy, now that religious war is back in
> vogue.
>
> Sorry for the offtopic, and thanks for your help, Ara.


Great, great, great can we talk about Alice again ;)

Really, what a b..... I am today, appologies to all who suffer from my
humor, I gonna pipe down now.

Robert




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Deux choses sont infinies : l'univers et la b=EAtise humaine ; en ce qui
concerne l'univers, je n'en ai pas acquis la certitude absolue.

- Albert Einstein

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