# 0x10c

> In a parallel universe where the space race never ended, space travel was gaining popularity amongst corporations and rich individuals.
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> In 1988, a brand new deep sleep cell was released, compatible with all popular 16 bit computers. Unfortunately, it used big endian, whereas the DCPU-16 specifications called for little endian. This led to a severe bug in the included drivers, causing a requested sleep of `0x0000 0000 0000 0001` years to last for `0x0001 0000 0000 0000` years.
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> It's now the year 281 474 976 712 644 AD, and the first lost people are starting to wake up to a universe on the brink of extinction, with all remote galaxies forever lost to red shift, star formation long since ended, and massive black holes dominating the galaxy.

I forgot about [0x10c](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0x10c). But the big/little endian thing came up earlier this week, in figuring out how to distinguish between our two Ians (we decided on Big Ian and Little Ian), and I was born in 1988, and, well