Questions about the order of bytes in a larger word in memory.
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Did any processor have opposite endianness for instructions and data?
The question "Which endian was the Intel 4004?" generated some discussion about the distinction between the endianness of instructions versus data. In the case of the 4004, the code space had 12 bit addresses, and addresses which were encoded…
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