Most big Unix machines are big-endian, but Intel x86 machines and older Digital machines are little-endian.
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Big-endian
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Esperanto
1 entries- pezkomenca adj (computing: storing the most significant byte at a lower address)
Polish
1 entries- grubokońcowość adj (computing: storing the most significant byte at a lower address)
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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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