Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Jul 1999 19:11:56 -0500 (CDT) | From | "David R. Linn" <> | Subject | Re: endiannes of the kernel |
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>> 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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