Define Big/Little Endian ( was: Re: RISC Mach...)

Allan Duncan aduncan at rhea.trl.oz.au
Mon Feb 5 08:23:47 AEST 1990


> Big endian:    Big end first (MSB)(LSB).
> Little endian: Little end first (LSB)(MSB).

What about the Intel little endian/big endian mish-mash on 32 bits?

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