Copyright 2004 Ken Greenebaum
Endianess
nBig-endian
nStore
information big end first
nMSB
in lower address
nLSB
in higher address
nHistorically
most machines big-endian
nIBM
370, Motorola CPU’s (68000)
nMost
RISC architectures
nSome
(like MIPS) are ‘bi-endian’
nInternet
protocols are big-endian