computer-science - 字节序从何而来

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Why are both little- and big-endian in use?

我只是想知道字节序的历史是什么？我原以为二进制数据存储在最低级别的方式早已成为标准，但显然它没有。为什么？

Answer 1

该术语实际上来自格列佛游记，但被用来概括计算机中数字表示看似随意的差异:

The origin of the odd terms big endian and little endian can be traced to the 1726 book Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift. In one part of the story, resistance to an imperial edict to break soft-boiled eggs on the "little end" escalates to civil war. (The plot is a satire of England's King Henry VIII's break with the Catholic Church.) A few hundred years later, in 1981, Danny Cohen applied the terms and the satire to our current situation in IEEE Computer (vol. 14, no. 10).

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