Online HelpPC 2.10 Quick Reference Utility Copyright 1991 David Jurgens
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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