endian
endian
(data, architecture)The term comes from Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" via thefamous paper "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace" by DannyCohen, USC/ISI IEN 137, 1980-04-01.
The Lilliputians, being very small, had correspondingly smallpolitical problems. The Big-Endian and Little-Endian partiesdebated over whether soft-boiled eggs should be opened at thebig end or the little end.
See also middle-endian, holy wars, NUXI problem, swab.