On Oct 14, 2005, at 3:39 AM, Tassilo von Parseval wrote:
Also, big-endian is often referred to as network byte-order and
little-endian as host byte-order.
You'll also hear them referred to as Motorola and Intel byte orders.
Motorola's processors tend to be big-endian, and Intel's little-endian.
The original debate was over whether to make math cheaper to
implement or numbers easier to follow when dealing with hexdumps.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness
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