On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 01:47, Ondrej Certik wrote:
> BTW, why was ppc designed as big engian? Just to be
> incompatible?
No. Networking is Big Endian. And the PPC was designed to be both.
There's an instruction in the CPU that'll switch it over to little.
> If all the world was little endian, it would be much
> easier.
> Or no?
Sorry. I like the word "Big" better than "little" :).
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