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by static
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10/11/05 10:29:02 PM
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New Critter's Wiki link is good.
If you've only every worked with one, then things will feel strange when you encounter the other.

My first assembly experience was with 8085 and Z80 processors, which are little-endian (i.e. they put the LSB of a two-byte value at the lower location in memory). It always felt a ltitle backwards to me. When I encountered the 9900, which is technically big-endian (it is actually a true 16-bit processor), everything felt a lot cleaner.

Wade.
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Post #229,229
by a6l6e6x
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10/11/05 10:42:51 PM
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New And vice versa for me. Long live big-endian!
Alex
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell
     Can someone give the abridged description of "endian"? - (drewk) - (24) - Oct. 11, 2005, 08:54:31 PM EDT
         Big Endian is the proper form. - (ChrisR) - (2) - Oct. 11, 2005, 09:04:48 PM EDT
             Thanks to all - (drewk) - (1) - Oct. 12, 2005, 09:33:38 AM EDT
                 Things were expensive back in those days. - (Another Scott) - Oct. 12, 2005, 09:55:21 AM EDT
         Very simple - (ben_tilly) - (15) - Oct. 11, 2005, 09:12:25 PM EDT
             Big Endian is also known as Network Byte Order - (tuberculosis) - Oct. 12, 2005, 01:33:13 PM EDT
             Little endian uses hebrew right to left - (ChrisR) - (13) - Oct. 12, 2005, 02:40:05 PM EDT
                 No it doesn't, and that's the problem. - (CRConrad) - (12) - Oct. 13, 2005, 06:38:38 AM EDT
                     Agreed. But left wondering on Endianess of Roman Numerals - (ChrisR) - (3) - Oct. 13, 2005, 10:19:43 AM EDT
                         This makes my head spin... - (Another Scott) - (2) - Oct. 13, 2005, 10:40:37 AM EDT
                             Try it with an abacus - (drewk) - (1) - Oct. 13, 2005, 11:18:53 AM EDT
                                 Exactly - (ben_tilly) - Oct. 13, 2005, 12:28:31 PM EDT
                     On Foolish Conistency - (pwhysall) - Oct. 13, 2005, 10:46:09 AM EDT
                     It gets worse. - (static) - (1) - Oct. 13, 2005, 10:02:03 PM EDT
                         Hurrah for 4-bit words. -NT - (pwhysall) - Oct. 14, 2005, 07:07:42 AM EDT
                     OK Christian.... - (jb4) - (4) - Oct. 17, 2005, 05:47:53 PM EDT
                         Give CRC pause? - (drewk) - (1) - Oct. 17, 2005, 08:01:51 PM EDT
                             Selbstverstandlich! -NT - (jb4) - Oct. 17, 2005, 08:05:11 PM EDT
                         Explain - how does wrongwayaroundianism help in those cases? -NT - (CRConrad) - (1) - Oct. 18, 2005, 07:47:14 AM EDT
                             zum Beispiel - (jb4) - Oct. 20, 2005, 11:59:31 AM EDT
         Critter's Wiki link is good. - (static) - (1) - Oct. 11, 2005, 10:29:02 PM EDT
             And vice versa for me. Long live big-endian! -NT - (a6l6e6x) - Oct. 11, 2005, 10:42:51 PM EDT
         16, 15, 14 vs 1, 2 ,3 -NT - (boxley) - Oct. 11, 2005, 10:57:03 PM EDT
         Also note the USAmerican date format, which is MIDDLE-Endian - (CRConrad) - Oct. 12, 2005, 04:41:04 AM EDT
         "Endian" is a who they offshoar IT wurk to. -NT - (tablizer) - Oct. 30, 2005, 11:59:39 PM EST

How very 1996.
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