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Re: [SLUG] Re: Endian-ness.

To: Sydney Linux Users Group <slug@nospam.slug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Re: Endian-ness.
From: Ken Yap <ken@nospam.nlc.net.au>
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 15:05:41 +1000
Reply-To: ken@nospam.nlc.net.au (Ken Yap)
Sender: owner-slug@nospam.newtreno.spectrum.com.au

>> Most UNIXes (for example, all System V) and the Internet are Big Endian. Mo
>torola 680x0 microprocessors (and therefore Macintoshes), Hewlett-Packard
>> PA-RISC, and Sun SuperSPARC processors are Big Endian. The Silicon Graphics
> MIPS and IBM/Motorola PowerPC processors are both Little and Big Endian
>> (bi-endian). 

Strictly speaking this is not correct either. Unix per se doesn't
have endianess, but the CPU platform does. Also to be nitpicking, the
Internet doesn't have endianess, but Internet protocols do (big-endian),
SMB being one major exception (guess why).
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