Subject: Re: commit: abispell: hash files for... latin?
From: Pierre Abbat (phma@oltronics.net)
Date: Wed Nov 21 2001 - 17:46:17 CST
On Wednesday 21 November 2001 16:59, David Chart wrote:
> --On 21/11/01 21:55 +0000 F J Franklin wrote:
> > o latin, as spoken by Italian Renaissance mathematician Francesco
> > Maurolico (1494-1575) - dictionary hash file for big-endian
> > architecture (ln-IT)
>
> Oh, that is just so cool... I have to get that installed on my system. (I'm
> on PPC, so I think I'm big-endian, right? BTW, apart from being a Swift
> reference, what does that mean?)
It means that numbers are written with the big end first - 0x9e3779b9 is
stored as 9e 37 79 b9, with 9e at the lowest address. Little endian stores it
as b9 79 37 9e. Little-endianness is built into the human body, so we have a
tendency to use it even though big-endian may seem to make more sense. If
lobsters had invented computers, there would be no little-endians.
Any idea what "high-heel" and "low-heel" mean as applied to computers?
phma
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