# 0x10c > In a parallel universe where the space race never ended, space travel was gaining popularity amongst corporations and rich individuals. > > 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. > > 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 --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://www.isaacbowen.com/2025/04/04/0x10c.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.