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From: bfox%eagle@HUB.UCSB.EDU (Brian Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Long and short integers
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Date: 23 Nov 88 01:33:46 GMT
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Boy, is my face red!

I said:

    In the Apple, the MSB is the leftmost bit in the byte.

That is correct.

    If you need several bytes worth of bits to represent a large number, then
    the byte at the lowest memory address contains the MSB (and in fact, is
    known as the Most Significant Byte).

That is incorrect.  The Apple stores the least significant byte at the lower
address.

Sorry,

	Brian Fox