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From: kenn@remus.rutgers.edu (Ken Nakata)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: BSD UNIX on a PowerMac??
Date: 2 Oct 1995 11:49:54 -0400
Organization: Rutgers University LCSR
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References: <DEr9vL.vA@yedi.iaf.nl> <Mark_Cookson-1909951051180001@mac1002.kip.apple.com> <caradoc-2209951549440001@ppp-236-111.neta.com> <erik-2609950903080001@192.0.2.1> <44cnda$msf@murrow.corp.sgi <44idbi$a52@park.uvsc.edu> <44msfr$1bd6@hearst.cac.psu.edu>
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emb121 (Eric Bennett) writes:
] In article <44idbi$a52@park.uvsc.edu>
] Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> writes:
] > The other problem is that the Mac word order is inverted, so you
] > have to write the UNIX "wrong" to use those routines (or take an
] > endian switch hit each time you do).
I think Terry was confused that m68k and PowerPC were different endian
machines, which isn't really the case. PowerPC is primarily a big-
endian machine which also handles little-endian data.
] From the Linux/PowerPC FAQ: Is Linux/PowerPC little or big endian ?
] Big.
[...]
] 4) It is a physical fact, like gravity, that big-endian is The Right
] Way.
I'm not sure if this is true...
] Anybody know of the 68030 Mac port of BSD is also big-endian?
Big. Who would do it otherwise?
ken n.
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