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Subject: Re: Creating several types from a base type and conversion
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Ken Roberts <alisonken1@gmail.com> writes:

> Based upon the hardware I worked on (and documentation for the 642
> system), apparently it's BE based:
>
> Register representation on panel: R bits 29 .. 0
>
> where MSB is on the left and LSB on the right.

Looks LE to me.

If the panel shows

bit #   ...  5 4 3 2 1 0
lit     ...  0 0 0 1 0 1

and the value represented is 5 then it's little-endian; bit 0 is the
least significant bit.