sounds typical, and highly amusing.  it's much like the chronically
over-blown war between pc and mac users (i prefer macs, but i'll be
using both very soon, and i certainly can make either work most of the
time, pc's just fight you a little more).

Ken Pergola wrote:
>
> FYI:
>
> The origin behind the terms little-endian and big-endian is an interesting
> read:
>
> Quoted from http://www.maxmon.com/1726ad.htm:
>
> "In 1980, a famous paper written by Danny Cohen entitled "On Holy Wars and a
> Plea for Peace" used the terms big-endian and little-endian to refer to the
> two techniques for storing data. These terms, which are still in use today,
> were derived from that part of Gulliver's tale whereby two countries go to
> war over which end of a hard-boiled egg should be eaten first -- the little
> end or the big end!"
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ken Pergola
>
> P.S.
>
> Attached is the Intel Hexadecimal Object File Format Specification
>
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>                                 Name: Intel Corp - intelhex.pdf
>    Intel Corp - intelhex.pdf    Type: Portable Document Format (application/pdf)
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