little-endian adj.
Describes a computer architecture in which, within a given 16-
or 32-bit word, bytes at lower addresses have lower significance
(the word is stored `little-end-first'). The PDP-11 and VAX
families of computers and Intel microprocessors and a lot of
communications and networking hardware are little-endian. See
big-endian, middle-endian, NUXI problem. The term is sometimes
used to describe the ordering of units other than bytes; most
often, bits within a byte.