David Noon wrote in a message to George White:

GW> DN>     DB   02H,0FDH

GW> Much better, as that is the correct byte sequence :-).
GW> "DW 02FDH" will generate the byte sequence "DB
0FDH,02H" because
GW> of the little endian Intel arrangement.

 DN> No it won't. Hexadecimal constants are treated as bit
 DN> strings and don't suffer from that [mutter, mutter] byte
 DN> reversal.

I'm not sure what you are using for an assembler, but "DW 02FDh"
will generate the same byte sequence as "DB 0FDh,02h" on all of
mine.
 
-- Mike


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