Look up: bi-endian

1. bi-endian
   Silicon schizophrenia. Processors and other chips that have can be switched to work in big-endian or little-endian mode. The PowerPC chip has this ability, which allows it to run the little-endian Windows NT, or the big-endian Mac OS/PPC. (1995-02-23)
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2. Big Endian
   A byte ordering system where the most-significant byte of a multiple bytenumber is placed in memory at the lowest address. See also: Byte, Little Endian.
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3. Big-endian
   High order byte first, details ...
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4. big-endian
   1. (data, architecture) A computer architecture in which, within a given multi-byte numeric representation, the most significant byte has the lowest address (the word is stored 'big-end-first'). Most processors, including the IBM 370 family, the PDP-10, the Motorola microprocessor families, and most...
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