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> The PDP-11 instruction set is small and elegant. Scared PDP-endianess sounds...

• freeone3000 6y ago
  It's little-endian, same as x86.
  • tomatocracy 6y ago
    I thought on the PDP-11 bytes in a 16 bit word were stored little endian but the 16 bit words in a 32 bit long were stored the other way around so it's a bit of both?
    • userbinator 6y ago
      Words are little-endian but the two halves of a long are big-endian. In consistently little-endian, a 32-bit quantity would be stored with the 1's, 256's, 65536's, and 16777216's place bytes in that order, but the PDP-11 puts them in the order 65536 16777216 1 256.
• deleted 6y ago
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