Who's rewired their house for this hobby?

[Guy Sotomayor]

> On Nov 26, 2014, at 12:04 PM, Holm Tiffe <holm at freibergnet.de> wrote:
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> Guy Sotomayor wrote:
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>>> On Nov 26, 2014, at 11:31 AM, Holm Tiffe <holm at freibergnet.de> wrote:
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>>>> To me, it seems that this is a Lilliput-versus-Blefuscu argument.
>>>> 
>>>> --Chuck
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>>> 
>>> Sorry, who the f.. is Blefuscu?
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>> Part I of the story from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726).
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>> Two countries were at war (Lilliput & Blefuscu) over which end of the egg to open (big vs little).  The Lilliputians were "little-endian" while the Blefuscians were "big-endian".  And that my friends is the first instance of the difference between big-endian and little endian!  The terms long pre-dated modern digital computers.
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>> TTFN - Guy
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> 
> Thanks, I never read that book.. only saw some children-comic-films
> about Gulliver's travels. Never realized that egg problem :-)
> 

Most folks think of it as a children's story.  It was (among other things)
a satirical view of European governments at the time.

TTFN - Guy