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big-endian
(foldoc) | big-endian
1. A computer architecture in which,
within a given multi-byte numeric representation, the most
significant byte has the lowest address (the word is stored
"big-end-first").
Most processors, including the IBM 370 family, the PDP-10,
the Motorola microprocessor families, and most of the
various RISC designs current in mid-1993, are big-endian.
See -endian.
2. A backward {electronic mail
address}. The world now follows the Internet hostname
standard (see FQDN) and writes e-mail addresses starting
with the name of the computer and ending up with the {country
code} (e.g. fred@doc.acme.ac.uk). In the United Kingdom the
Joint Networking Team decided to do it the other way round
(e.g. me@uk.ac.wigan.cs) before the Internet domain
standard was established. Most gateway sites required
ad-hockery in their mailers to handle this.
By July 1994 this parochial idiosyncracy was on the way out
and mailers started to reject big-endian addresses. By about
1996, people would look at you strangely if you suggested such
a bizarre thing might ever have existed.
[Jargon File]
(1998-08-09)
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big-endian
(jargon) | big-endian
adj.
[common; From Swift's Gulliver's Travels via the famous paper On Holy Wars
and a Plea for Peace by Danny Cohen, USC/ISI IEN 137, dated April 1, 1980]
1. Describes a computer architecture in which, within a given multi-byte
numeric representation, the most significant byte has the lowest address
(the word is stored ‘big-end-first’). Most processors, including the IBM
370 family, the PDP-10, the Motorola microprocessor families, and most of
the various RISC designs are big-endian. Big-endian byte order is also
sometimes called network order. See little-endian, middle-endian, {NUXI
problem}, swab.
2. An Internet address the wrong way round. Most of the world follows the
Internet standard and writes email addresses starting with the name of the
computer and ending up with the name of the country. In the U.K.: the Joint
Academic Networking Team had decided to do it the other way round before
the Internet domain standard was established. Most gateway sites have {
ad-hockery} in their mailers to handle this, but can still be confused. In
particular, the address me@uk.ac.bris.pys.as could be interpreted in
JANET's big-endian way as one in the U.K. (domain uk) or in the standard
little-endian way as one in the domain as (American Samoa) on the opposite
side of the world.
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