Just to set the historical record straight,
Little Endian Machines include
DEC VAX (and PDP-11 before it)
Intel x86 (and 8080 before it)
Big Endian Machines include
Macintosh, both 68000 and PowerPC
-- Andy Heninger
heninger@us.ibm.com
> > 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."
>
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