From Newsgroup: alt.folklore.computers

It appears that Al Kossow <aek@bitsavers.org> said:

I'm not 100% sure but I think this company. hardly more than a footnote in >> computer history, was the cause of little-endian processors.

Guess again

Try the DEC PDP-11 (1969)

Yup. The PDP-11 was definitely the first byte addressed machine with little-endian byte order.

I have looked through every scrap of documentation I can find, and I have never found an explanation of why they did that. They definitely knew it was different
from all the existing byte addressed machines.

Please do us all a favor and DO NOT send in your guesses about why they did, unless they include verified quotes from people who were at DEC in the 1960s. --
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly
--- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2