Big endian

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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
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