The big-endian question comes up on those Internet chat places young techies like to hang out in. To us old-timers it falls under the heading of “Kids these days!” Here is the tale for those too young to remember. Around 1987 AST Research introduced the AST Premium which won the InfoWord Editor’s Choice award. There were many different models differing in memory and hard drive capacity. If you had the Model 140 shown in the … Why is network-byte-order defined to be big-endian?Read more