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Can any one, please, tell me why Intel uses Little Endian ordering of bytes? Is there any advantage of Little Endian over Big Endian?

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Hi,never heard of the big or little endian so reading a bit about it was interesting ,seems like you answer may be that windows OS dose not use big -endian
assuming you didn't do a google search for an answer i will post what i read, hope it helps
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness

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