EISA Byte Ordering

EISA Byte Ordering

An important implementation detail of the EISA bus is that it uses the Intel convention of "little-endian" byte ordering, in which the least significant byte of a halfword or word is in the lowest address. The Silicon Graphics CPU uses "big-endian" ordering, with the most significant byte first. Hence data exchanged with the EISA bus often needs to be reordered before use.