I am fairly sure it was little endian, but it is hard to tell. I only think this because I read an internal document at Zilog that talked about it. Note that Zilog started out with several Intel employees, thus the Z80 is actually related to the 4004.
-----Original Message----- From: John Summerfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 10:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: big and little endian On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, John Alvord wrote: > The way I understand it, the little endian scheme is optimized for > mini/micro hardware of the middle 1970s (4004. 8080, PDP etc). Those I don't think the 4004 (4-bit words) could have ben either;-) You neglected the 8008, after the 4004 and before the 8080. The only think I know about the 8008 is that they were used in some terminals we had in the mid 70s, made by Information Electronics in Canberra. -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb Copyright John Summerfield. Reproduction prohibited.
