Computer Science, Operating Systems.
significant byte. The thing we want to store, F6 00 00 00, is stored as: Big Endian: F6 00 00 00 Little Endian: 00 00 00 F6 Notice that bits within the same byte is not reordered. As a result, the bit pattern 0x FF 00 00 00 could be viewed in two ways, either in big endian, or in little endian.