Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] None
Date: Friday, 02 Oct 2020, 07:36:41

    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    >
    > What is the differnece between little and big endian?

See

  IEN 137                                              Danny Cohen
						       U S C/I S I
						      1 April 1980
   
   
	     ON HOLY WARS AND A PLEA FOR PEACE
   
   
			INTRODUCTION
   
  This  is  an  attempt to stop a war.  I hope it is not too late and that
  somehow, magically perhaps, peace will prevail again.
   
  The latecomers into the arena believe that the issue is:  "What  is  the
  proper byte order in messages?".
   
  The root of the conflict lies much deeper than that.  It is the question
  of  which  bit  should  travel first, the bit from the little end of the
  word, or the bit from the big end of the  word?  The  followers  of  the
  former  approach are called the Little-Endians, and the followers of the
  latter are called the Big-Endians.  The details of the holy war  between
  the  Little-Endians  and  the  Big-Endians  are  documented  in  [6] and
  described, in brief, in the Appendix. I recommend that you  read  it  at
  this point.
  ...
   
  <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/ien/ien137.txt>

--Stan-