Exactly. It has nothing to do with hardware. I am complaining about the inconsistency in the single hex digit, two ascii character, view. Why don't people who

Exactly. It has nothing to do with hardware. I am complaining about the inconsistency in the single hex digit, two ascii character, view. Why don't people who claim to prefer little-endianness actually follow through and display these two ascii characters in a little-endian order? Why do people who like little-endian not prefer the human readable hexadecimal display of eighteen to be 0x21 rather than 0x12? If these humans really prefer little-endian human readable hexadecimal display of multi-byte values, then why don't they also prefer little-endian human readable hexadecimal display of the two four-bit nibbles in single-byte values? How is it consistent that little endian people say "0x0A0B" means "eleven times two to the eighth power, plus ten"; but they don't say that "0xAB" means "eleven times two to the fourth power, plus ten"? In what world does it make sense that the ordering of the ascii characters that represent each 4-bit nibble of a multi-byte value hops back and forth between being less significant and more significant as you read them left to right?