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> The other name for big-endian is "network order", after all. I wonder where this started... I always suspected it was Sun with their "The Network is the Com
by civility 9y ago
> The other name for big-endian is "network order", after all.
I wonder where this started... I always suspected it was Sun with their "The Network is the Computer" motto, and of course they would define "network byte order" as what they used.
Today, it drives me crazy that we're constantly swapping before sending across the network and then swapping again when it's received.
- twic 9y agoThis may be the best ensemble of answers you'll get to that question: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/2652/when-was-network-byte-order-decided/2654 https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/2652/when... The internet was big-endian from the start, and that was probably because DEC machines were big-endian.
- tjalfi 9y agoDEC's PDP-11, VAX, and Alpha were all little-endian. Alpha was biendian but Cray Research was the only vendor that shipped a big endian configuration.