Re: Castle Adventure by David Malmberg

[russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto)]

In article <20040715182057.11545.00001407@mb-m11.aol.com>,
Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:
>
>Despite the "religious wars" around endianness, no computer
>subculture I am familiar with has been so rabidly little endian
>that they put the LSB at the _left_ end of a byte.  And when a
>word-oriented big endian actually does multiple-precision
>arithmetic, they usually arrange the words in little endian
>order. ;-)

IBM numbers the bits in a word starting from 0 as _most significant_,
sometimes called "little endian bit ordering".