Re: bout BigEndian and LittleEndian

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 06:29:34 GMT, CBFalconer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>"Mike V." wrote:
>> 
>...snip ....
>> 
>> Only an engineer who went to high school in the U.S. and forced to
>> read Gulliver's Travels would readily identify that the Lilliputians
>> (or was it the Brobdingans (sp?) would break their egs at the big end
>> or little end!
>
>IIRC Lilliputians were small guys, Brobdignagians were largely
>horses, and there was another group warring over egg endianism.

IIRC, the egg endian wars were internal rebellions (the emperor
declared everyone should break the big end after his son cut his
finger breaking the little end, but people resented the order,
especially since breaking the little end was traditional).  The
(neighboring?) realm of Blefescu fomented the rebellions in hopes of
gaining some advantage (taking over Lilliput?).

Regards,

                               -=Dave
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