George W Gerrity <ggerrity@dragnet.com.au> wrote:
> To expand on this, imagine there is a text file in some encoding on
> some medium created by a little-endian machine (say a DEC Vax or a
> Macintosh 68000), and it is to be accessed on a big-endian machine
> (any Intel 8080 -- Pentium architecture).
This doesn't answer your main question, but: You've got your
terminology backward. Architectures that store the most significant
byte first, like the Vax and Macintosh, are called "big-endian," while
those that store the least significant byte first, like the Intel
series, are called "little-endian."
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
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