Replying to a message of James Vahn to Chris Berkhout:
 >> mov     ah,b[var]
 >> mov     al,b[var+1]
 >> var     dw      0102Fh
 JV> 
 >>         AX = 0201h, aren't they meant to do the same thing ?
 JV> Nope, little endian. AX = AL AH
The confusion which arises in this regard constantly amazes me. 
We think of memory as beginning at lower addresses, and we write this 
left-to-right on our page accordingly, so that the least significant bits are 
on the left. But when it comes to things like bytes and words and whatnot, we 
write the *most* significant bits/bytes/whatever on the left.
Then we turn around and think the Intel CPU stores things backwards :)
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