Post-ID: thread-20100319035621-qdb-302239
Created-At: 2010-03-19T03:56:21Z
Board-Tags: general
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<bofh> how did little endian come about anyway?
<tgies> ok you know about the original sin right
<bofh> like big endian seems fairly obvious as it's how we typically read numbers, and it was also used by the TCP/IP spec
<bofh> as in the trig function?
<tgies> no the biblical original sin
<tgies> god showed up
<tgies> and he was like
<tgies> ok, since you guys are dillholes and dont know how to fucking listen
<tgies> from now on you have to work for your food
<tgies> childbirth will be painful
<tgies> and you'll have to work with this fucking stupid god damn system for representing numbers where the least significant byte comes first