Binary format where most significant byte has the lowest address. This format is used on IBM 370 and most RISC designs.
Words in computers, are created from 2 or 4 bytes. In a big-endian architecture, the leftmost byte of a word is the most significant. In a little-endian architecture, the rightmost byte is most significant. Most PCs use little endian architecture; big endian architecture is mainly used in larger computers. See Little endian, Word and byte.
A method of data storage in which the least significant bit of a numeric value spanning multiple bytes is in the highest addressed byte. Contrast with little endian.
one possible ROM byte order
A memory or data format in which the most significant byte is stored at the lower address or arrives first. See also little endian.
data storage format in which a multi-byte data value is stored with the most-significant data byte through least-significant data byte in the lowest through highest byte addresses, respectively. This is the storage format traditionally used by the Motorola 680x0, HP PA-RISC, Sun SPARC, and AMD 29000-series processors.
Refers to machines representing words most significant byte first. While x86 machines do not use big endian byte ordering (instead using little endian), the PowerPC and SPARC architectures do. This is also network byte order. See Also: Little endian
In the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE), an attribute of data representation that reflects how multi-octet data is stored in memory. In big endian representation, the lowest addressed octet of a multi-octet data item is the most significant. See endian and little endian.