Re: Castle Adventure by David Malmberg

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Matthew Russotto replied:

>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".

Yes, as does HP.  But this ordering is "big endian", not "little endian".

Big endian has the most significant bit(s) at the lower addresses.
Bit number in this case is a form of "addressing".

I was referring to how values are written on paper, as I thought
the term "left" would imply.

-michael

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