Big endian

Most significant value is leftmost. See little-endian byte order for a detailed explanation. The Internet operates in big endian byte order.

Known big endian computer architectures (found in OpenBSD) include:


 * macppc (IBM PowerPC)
 * sparc
 * sparc64
 * m64k (Motorolla 68000 series CPU)
 * m88k
 * hppa
 * hppa64
 * arm