title: Does my AMD-based machine use little endian or big endian?
body: <p>I'm going though a computers system course and I'm trying to establish, <em>for sure</em>, if my AMD based computer is a little-endian machine? I believe it is because it would be Intel-compatible.</p>
  <p>Specifically, my processor is an AMD 64 Athlon x2.</p>
  <p>I understand that this can matter in C programming. I'm writing C programs and a method I'm using would be affected by this. I'm trying to figure out if I'd get the same results if I ran the program on an Intel based machine (assuming that <strong>is</strong> little endian machine).</p>
  <p>Finally, let me ask this: Would any and all machines capable of running Windows (XP, Vista, 2000, Server 2003, etc) and, say, <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download" rel="noreferrer">Ubuntu Linux desktop</a> be little endian?</p>