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[wimble.livejournal.com]

And, somewhere, I've got documentation to prove it. 'fraid I've no longer got access to my usual references.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Oh, for the record, the earliest citation of "endian" is from Gulliver's travels, according to which end of an egg should be cracked open first.

Really must clear the crap off my home machine!

[venta.livejournal.com]

Blimey... I didn't realise it was a Real Word, as opposed to something sad comptuer users had dreamed up.

And one notional kudo to onebyone.

[addedentry.livejournal.com]

Dreamed up by sad computer users in explicit reference to Swift. See this paper, particularly the appendix.

I'd be interested to know if the OED has any citations between Swift and that paper other than direct discussions of Gulliver's Travels.

How about these?

[narenek.livejournal.com]

1832 CARLYLE in Fraser's Mag. V. 254 Its dome is but a foolish Big-endian or Little-endian chip of an egg-shell compared with that star-fretted Dome.

1961 Y. OLSSON Syntax Eng. Verb ii. 18 Though what Jonathan Swift might have called the Small-Endian view seems to be in a certain vogue, the procedure here followed is Big-Endian.

Re: How about these?

[addedentry.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Good.

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

The original use of the word is still the first thing that jumps into my mind when someone uses it!

(Is that sadder or not?)