meaning of big blue

1. big blue International Business Machines big-endian 1. architecture> A computer architecture in which, within a given multi-byte numeric representation, the most significant byte has the lowest address the word is stored "big-end-first". Most processors, including the IBM 370 family, the PDP-10, the Motorola microprocessor families, and most of the various RISC designs current in mid-1993, are big-endian. See -endian. 2. standard> A backward electronic mail address. The world now follows the Internet hostname standard see FQDN and writes e-mail addresses starting with the name of the computer and ending up with the country code e. g. fred@doc. acme. ac. uk. In the United Kingdom the Joint Networking Team decided to do it the other way round e. g. me@uk. ac. wigan. cs before the Internet domain standard was established. Most gateway sites required ad-hockery in their mailers to handle this. By July 1994 this parochial idiosyncracy was on the way out and mailers started to reject big-endian addresses. By about 1996, people would look at you strangely if you suggested such a bizarre thing might ever have existed. [Jargon File]
2. a reliable and deadly 15,000-pound fragmentation bomb that explodes just above ground with a large radius; the largest conventional bomb in existence; used in Afghanistan

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