can someone please define "big endian" and "little endian" for me, i
understand that some machines have high byte first and small byte last,
and some are the other way around, which of these are which when using
the "endian" terminology?  fwiw, i have always preferred high to low
value order of bytes, since that's the way we write ordinary human
interpretable numbers, and it makes the most sense to me
computationally.  obviously there must be some logical or implementation
advantage to having them what i consider "backwards" that i don't
understand or know, that information would be appreciated as well.

Anthony Toft wrote:
>
> > Wisp628 does not take a .hex file, it has its own communication format,
> > in which a 14 bit word is represented by 4 hexadecimal characters, in
> > high-to-low ordening.
>
> big endian, so I will have to switch them around :)
>
> Thanks
>
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