On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 11:47, Ondrej Certik wrote: > BTW, why was ppc designed as big engian? Just to be > incompatible? > If all the world was little endian, it would be much > easier. Actually, all of the world _is_ big endian. One of the only exceptions to this is the x86. Except for this and a few other very small cases, everything else is big endian, even network byte order. -m