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SubjectRe: endiannes of the kernel
>> From: Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
>>
>> >Speaking of which, can someone tell me if the Alpha has different
>> >endianness than the Intel processors?
>>
>> No; Alpha is little endian (as, obviously, is Intel). SPARC, m68k and
>> PowerPC are big-endian; MIPS and ARM can be either.

>> From: lhirlimann@itsoft.fr
>>
>> AFAIK the Alpha and the POwerPC can do Both. For the PowerPC it doesn't
matter
>> (just have to tell him). On the Alpha the best mode is Big Endian - little
>> endians slows the beast - afaik being little endian 32 bits is the best way
to
>> slow the beast : exactly what NT does.

Like the others, SPARC can also be big-endian or little-endian (sometimes
the LE config is called the CRAPS arch by those with a negative opinion).
At one point Intergraph was going to port MSWNT to a little-endian SPARC
system. Eventually, they decided to just punt and use an Intel x86 chip.


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