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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!bcc.ac.uk!mac-141.ucl-32.bcc.ac.uk!user From: ucacbey@ucl.ac.uk (Benjamin Yeo) Subject: Re: BSD UNIX on a PowerMac?? Sender: news@ucl.ac.uk (Usenet News System) Message-ID: <ucacbey-1210951044170001@mac-141.ucl-32.bcc.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 10:44:17 GMT 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> Organization: University College London Lines: 42 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.sys.mac.misc:97524 comp.sys.mac.system:104058 comp.sys.mac.hardware:149852 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:7375 In article <44msfr$1bd6@hearst.cac.psu.edu>, emb121 (Eric Bennett) wrote: > In article <44idbi$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). > > From the Linux/PowerPC FAQ: > > ======================================================================== > ============= > Is Linux/PowerPC little or big endian ? > > Big. PowerPCs take their instructions big end first, but can be set to > take their data either way. Set for little-endian data, a PowerPC slows > down about 3% (this number is unconfirmed). Linux/PowerPC is big-endian > for the following reasons: > > 1) The PowerMac operating system is big-endian; > 2) AIX, the IBM POWER/PowerPC operating system, is big-endian; > 3) Net-order is big-endian; > 4) It is a physical fact, like gravity, that big-endian is The Right > Way. > ======================================================================== > ============= > > Does this make Linux/PPC and AIX "wrong?" :) Anybody know of the 68030 > Mac port of > BSD is also big-endian? > > > -Eric Bennett (ericb@psu.edu) > > Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing. > -Robert Benchley > ======================================================================== > ============= > > Just to enquire, how can I find an ftp site for the BSD 68k Mac port? And > also, does Linux 68k for the Mac exist? If so, where?