Big-endian vs Little-endian

Endianness
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little-endian

A big-endian machine stores the most-significant byte first (at the lowest address), and a little-endian machine stores the least-significant byte first.

 

Big Endian
8 bit:	C	o	m	p	u	t	e	r
16 bit:	Co		mp		ut		er
32 bit:	Comp				uter
Little Endian
8 bit:	r	e	t	u	p	m	o	C
16 bit:	er		ut		mp		Co
32 bit:	uter				Comp

Little-endian operating systems: Linux on x86, x86-64, MIPSEL, Alpha, Itanium, S+core, MN103, CRIS, Blackfin, MicroblazeEL, ARM, M32REL, TILE, SH, XtensaEL and UniCore32 Mac OS X on x86, x86-64 OpenVMS on VAX, Alpha and Itanium Solaris on x86, x86-64, PowerPC Tru64 UNIX on Alpha Windows on x86, x86-64, Alpha, PowerPC, MIPS and Itanium Big-endian operating systems: AIX on POWER AmigaOS on PowerPC and 680x0 HP-UX on Itanium and PA-RISC Linux on MIPS, SPARC, PA-RISC, POWER, PowerPC, 680x0, ESA/390, z/Architecture, H8, FR-V, AVR32, Microblaze, ARMEB, M32R, SHEB and Xtensa. Mac OS on PowerPC and 680x0 Mac OS X on PowerPC MVS and DOS/VSE on ESA/390, and z/VSE and z/OS on z/Architecture Solaris on SPARC

 

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Big-endian: UNIX(RISC), Network 상의 Byte-Order 표준 Little-endian: Intel 기반 PC (CISC)