thank you! i'm glad the definitions are at least logical to me, it makes thought much less confusing when definitions make sense. Michael Rigby-Jones wrote: -------- > > Little Endian has the Least Significant word at the lowest address, Big > Endian has the Most Significant word at the lowest address. > > On a PIC, the "endianess" is determined by the software functions that > handle multi-byte calculations, i.e. you could store the LSB at the highest > or lowest address. On 16/32 etc bit micro's the achitecture of the mico > itself determines this. > > Regards > > Mike --------- -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.