<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.


Compare big-endian, middle-endian. See NUXI problem.

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Last updated: 1995-08-16

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