Replying to a message of James Vahn to Darryl Gregorash:
 JV>>> Nope, little endian. AX = AL AH
 >> 
 >> The confusion which arises in this regard constantly amazes
 >> me. 
 JV> You're right, that was confusing. My point was that if Chris
 JV> stores a  word (or larger) then he needs to realize that it
 JV> is actually stored  in reverse of how it appears in his
 JV> code. 
I agree this is a big problem for folx who do not understand the Intel 
architecture; I do personally think, however, that little-endian processors 
are more "natural" than big-endian ones, since the lowest order bits of any 
object, no matter what size, are stored in lower order bits in memory. 
I think I still prefer the "right-to-left" description. In fact, if we were 
to think of bits in memory in the Intel architecture as beginning at the 
bottom right of a "page", and read them off right to left, bottom to top, 
then all this confusion would disappear forever.. because then the higher 
order elements of any data object _would_ appear on the "page" in the same 
order as we write them.
As I said before, it is only when we insist on ordering some things left to 
right/top to bottom, but other things right to left, that the confusion 
arises.
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