On Mer, 2003-08-06 at 18:49, Fargusson.Alan wrote: > I suspect that little endian was an accident. It is easy to design little > endian for a serial adder as John pointed out. You can't tell the > difference on a word addressed machine since you need to be able to see the > same data with different views to tell how it is stored. Oddly enough a
On Z80 little endian is a performance win at least for non deep magic programmers because you often needed to do 8bit maths ops. If HL pointed to your data then in little endian you could fiddle with the low byte without adjusting HL, and also do 8bit converts from 16bit data without extra maths.
