little-endian

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little-endian - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  little-endian
  
     <data, architecture> A computer architecture in which, within
     a given 16- or 32-bit word, bytes at lower addresses have
     lower significance (the word is stored "little-end-first").
     The PDP-11 and VAX families of computers and Intel
     microprocessors and a lot of communications and networking
     hardware are little-endian.
  
     The term is sometimes used to describe the ordering of units
     other than bytes; most often, bits within a byte.
  
     Compare big-endian, middle-endian.  See NUXI problem.
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1995-08-16)
  

little-endian - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  little-endian
   adj.
  
     Describes a computer architecture in which, within a given 16- or
     32-bit word, bytes at lower addresses have lower significance (the
     word is stored `little-end-first'). The PDP-11 and VAX families
  of
     computers and Intel microprocessors and a lot of communications and
     networking hardware are little-endian. See big-endian,
     middle-endian, NUXI problem. The term is sometimes used to
     describe the ordering of units other than bytes; most often, bits
     within a byte.