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              Byte Ordering of Different Computer Architectures              
                                                                                                                                                                 
                        16 Bit          32 Bit          Floating                
        Architecture    Integer         Format           Point                  
                                                                                          MC68000          MSB            MSB              MSB                             Intel            LSB            LSB              LSB                             PDP-11           LSB         MSW...LSW        MSW...LSW                          VAX              LSB            LSB           MSW...LSW                          IBM 360/370      MSB            MSB              MSB                                                                                                                                                                                               MSB means Most Significant Byte first or a byte order of 3210                    LSB means Least Significant Byte first or a byte order of 0123                   MSW...LSW means a byte order of 3201 or 67452301                                                                                                                                                                                                   See BIBLIO reference "Computer Language Magazine", April, 1987,                  P.J. Plauger for more information                                                                                                                                                                                                          
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