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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>big-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="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="big-win.html" title="big win"/><link rel="next" href="bignum.html" title="bignum"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">big-endian</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="big-win.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="bignum.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="big-endian"/><dt xmlns="" id="big-endian"><b>big-endian</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common; From Swift's <i class="citetitle">Gulliver's Travels</i> via
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the famous paper <i class="citetitle">On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace</i>
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by Danny Cohen, USC/ISI <a href="http://khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu/wollman/ien-137.txt" target="_top">IEN 137</a>,
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dated April 1, 1980]</p></dd><dd><p> 1. Describes a computer architecture in which, within a given
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multi-byte numeric representation, the most significant byte has the lowest
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address (the word is stored ‘big-end-first’). Most processors,
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including the IBM 370 family, the <a href="../P/PDP-10.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-10</i></a>, the
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Motorola microprocessor families, and most of the various RISC designs are
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big-endian. Big-endian byte order is also sometimes called <span class="firstterm">network order</span>. See
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<a href="../L/little-endian.html"><i class="glossterm">little-endian</i></a>, <a href="../M/middle-endian.html"><i class="glossterm">middle-endian</i></a>,
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<a href="../N/NUXI-problem.html"><i class="glossterm">NUXI problem</i></a>, <a href="../S/swab.html"><i class="glossterm">swab</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. An Internet address the wrong way round. Most of the world
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follows the Internet standard and writes email addresses starting with the
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name of the computer and ending up with the name of the country. In the
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U.K.: the Joint Academic Networking Team had decided to do it the other way
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round before the Internet domain standard was established. Most gateway
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sites have <a href="../A/ad-hockery.html"><i class="glossterm">ad-hockery</i></a> in their mailers to handle
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this, but can still be confused. In particular, the address <tt class="systemitem">me@uk.ac.bris.pys.as</tt> could be interpreted in
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JANET's big-endian way as one in the U.K. (domain <tt class="systemitem">uk</tt>) or in the standard little-endian way as
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one in the domain <tt class="systemitem">as</tt> (American
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Samoa) on the opposite side of the world.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="big-win.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="bignum.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">big win<69></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>bignum</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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