Difference between revisions of "Big endian"
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Most significant value is leftmost. See [[little endian|little-endian]] byte order for a detailed explanation. The Internet operates in big endian byte order. | Most significant value is leftmost. See [[little endian|little-endian]] byte order for a detailed explanation. The Internet operates in big endian byte order. | ||
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| + | Known big endian computer architectures (found in [[OpenBSD]]) include: | ||
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| + | * macppc (IBM PowerPC) | ||
| + | * sparc | ||
| + | * sparc64 | ||
| + | * m64k (Motorolla 68000 series CPU) | ||
| + | * m88k | ||
| + | * hppa | ||
| + | * hppa64 | ||
| + | * arm | ||
Latest revision as of 04:44, 4 December 2005
Most significant value is leftmost. See little-endian byte order for a detailed explanation. The Internet operates in big endian byte order.
Known big endian computer architectures (found in OpenBSD) include:
- macppc (IBM PowerPC)
- sparc
- sparc64
- m64k (Motorolla 68000 series CPU)
- m88k
- hppa
- hppa64
- arm
