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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>little-endian</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../L.html" title="L"/><link rel="previous" href="lithium-lick.html" title="lithium lick"/><link rel="next" href="live.html" title="live"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">little-endian</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lithium-lick.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="live.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="little-endian"/><dt xmlns="" id="little-endian"><b>little-endian</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Describes a computer architecture in which, within a given 16- or
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32-bit word, bytes at lower addresses have lower significance (the word is
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stored ‘little-end-first’). The <a href="../P/PDP-11.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-11</i></a>
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and <a href="../V/VAX.html"><i class="glossterm">VAX</i></a> families of computers and Intel
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microprocessors and a lot of communications and networking hardware are
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little-endian. See <a href="../B/big-endian.html"><i class="glossterm">big-endian</i></a>,
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<a href="../M/middle-endian.html"><i class="glossterm">middle-endian</i></a>, <a href="../N/NUXI-problem.html"><i class="glossterm">NUXI problem</i></a>.
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The term is sometimes used to describe the ordering of units other than
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bytes; most often, bits within a byte.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lithium-lick.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="live.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">lithium lick </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> live</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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