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endian
(foldoc) | endian
Suffix used in the terms big-endian and
little-endian that describe the ordering of bytes in a
multi-byte number.
The term comes 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, 1980-04-01.
The Lilliputians, being very small, had correspondingly small
political problems. The Big-Endian and Little-Endian parties
debated over whether soft-boiled eggs should be opened at the
big end or the little end.
See also middle-endian, holy wars, NUXI problem, swab.
(2007-08-14)
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Mendiant
(gcide) | Mendiant \Men"di*ant\, n.
See Mendinant. [Obs.]
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bi-endian
(foldoc) | bi-endian
Silicon schizophrenia. Processors and other chips that have
can be switched to work in big-endian or little-endian
mode.
The PowerPC chip has this ability, which allows it to run
the little-endian Windows NT, or the big-endian Mac OS/PPC.
(1995-02-23)
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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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little-endian
(foldoc) | little-endian
A computer architecture in which, within
a given 16- or 32-bit word, bytes at lower addresses have
lower significance (the word is stored "little-end-first").
The PDP-11 and VAX families of computers and Intel
microprocessors and a lot of communications and networking
hardware are little-endian.
The term is sometimes used to describe the ordering of units
other than bytes; most often, bits within a byte.
Compare big-endian, middle-endian. See NUXI problem.
[Jargon File]
(1995-08-16)
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middle-endian
(foldoc) | middle-endian
Neither big-endian nor little-endian.
Used of perverse byte orders such as 3-4-1-2 or 2-1-4-3,
occasionally found in the packed decimal formats of some
minicomputer manufacturers.
See -endian.
[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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little-endian
(jargon) | little-endian
adj.
Describes a computer architecture in which, within a given 16- or 32-bit
word, bytes at lower addresses have lower significance (the word is stored
‘little-end-first’). The PDP-11 and VAX families of computers and Intel
microprocessors and a lot of communications and networking hardware are
little-endian. See big-endian, middle-endian, NUXI problem. The term
is sometimes used to describe the ordering of units other than bytes; most
often, bits within a byte.
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middle-endian
(jargon) | middle-endian
adj.
Not big-endian or little-endian. Used of perverse byte orders such as
3-4-1-2 or 2-1-4-3, occasionally found in the packed-decimal formats of
minicomputer manufacturers who shall remain nameless. See NUXI problem.
Non-US hackers use this term to describe the American mm/dd/yy style of
writing dates (Europeans write little-endian dd/mm/yy, and Japanese use
big-endian yy/mm/dd for Western dates).
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