Endian

//ˈɛn.dɪ.ən//

"Endian" in a Sentence (2 examples)

endian-neutral code

In Ken Turkowski's article on the big and little endian addressing used on the 68020 he commented that Motorola's approach "proved" that a machine with consistant^([sic]) bit addressing (e.g., all little or big endian) was impossible. I assume that he was joking.

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