clipka wrote:
> byte ordering that /starts/ with the "big end".

But that's my point.  "Starts" and "ends" is meaningless. The MSB is either 
at the lowest address space or it's at the highest address space. The only 
reason we think of "starts" and "ends" that was is we write from left to 
right. I suspect "big endian" and "little endian" would be confusing to 
those speaking hebrew, arabic, or whatever version of chinese goes from top 
to bottom.

I mean, if the terms were in chinese, they'd be "highendian" and 
"lowendian", and you'd have a heck of a time guessing what that's supposed 
to mean.

> or just vice versa. Yeah, sure, eggheads :-)

Well, there's arguments for both that make sense. But it's really quite 
arbitrary exactly because there *are* arguments for both.

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