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إمي ❄️🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸@emmy@transfem.social (2026-10-16 02:15:48)
​:sayori_no:​ little endian
​:sayori_no:​ big endian
​:sayori_yes:​ 8-bit CPU with no way to represent numbers more than 255
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Sun Microdevil Pte Ltd@koakuma@uwu.social (2026-10-16 02:18:41)
@emmy Which bit comes first tho?

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إمي ❄️🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸@emmy@transfem.social (2026-10-16 02:24:01)
@koakuma@uwu.social That's unrelated to endianness though. The least significant bit is always the least significant bit.

(although I remember some IBM documentation that called the MSB bit 0...)