big-endian en · ADJ
Etymology
See the etymology for endian.
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(not-comparable) Storing the most significant byte of a multibyte number at a lower address than the least significant byte; that is, "big end" first.
Most big Unix machines are big-endian, but Intel x86 machines and older Digital machines are little-endian.
1999, W. Curtis Preston, Unix Backup and Recovery, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 132:
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(not-comparable) Transmitting the most significant byte of a multibyte number before transmitting the least significant byte; that is, "big end" first.
The network octet order for all protocols in the TCP/IP protocol suite is big-endian. A big-endian computer system need not perform any conversion in building TCP/IP protocol headers from integers stored in its memory.
1994, James Martin, Joe Leben, TCP/IP Networking: Architecture, Administration, and Programming, Prentice Hall, page 203:
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eo pezkomenca (computing: storing the most significant byte at a lower address) · pl grubokońcowość (computing: storing the most significant byte at a lower address)