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Q: 

Endianness of "IBM PC" byte order?

I looked at the Wikipedia article on endianness and it doesn't mention anything about this type of byte order (which is what photoshop asks me about when opening RAW files). Which is it?

+5  A: 

IBM PC == x86 which is mentioned in the article (uses LO HI byte order a.k.a. little endian)

Anders K.  2009-07-28 05:16:24
+3  A: 

That Wikipedia article says that X86 is little-endian. Is there something else you're asking and I'm missing it?

jasonh  2009-07-28 05:18:17
I didn't make the connection between IBM PC and X86 until just now!
RCIX  2009-07-28 05:20:53

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