Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 09 Mar 1999 17:25:10 -0300 | From | Juan Carlos Castro y Castro <> | Subject | Re: Linux/IA-64 byte order |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: >
(snip debate)
> My POINT is that there is absolutely no technical reason to prefer one > over the other. > > And like it or not, LE is very dominant due to PC's and the MS inability > to work with BE machines on NT. So LE isn't going away any time soon. > > In short, the best we can hope for is to just end the confusion, and > that BE will fade. No, I don't think that's likely either, but it's > better than having two different byteorders with no technical reason to > chose between the two. > > Avoid confusion.
Anyway, who had the <sarcasm>BRILLIANT</sarcasm> idea of building a CPU in which you can choose the byte order? What was that for? Making both Windows-ists and Mac-ists happy?
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