Big-endian

"Big-endian" in a Sentence (2 examples)

Most big Unix machines are big-endian, but Intel x86 machines and older Digital machines are little-endian.

The network octet order for all protocols in the TCP/IP protocol suite is big-endian. A big-endian computer system need not perform any conversion in building TCP/IP protocol headers from integers stored in its memory.

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