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To: Kyle Mestery <mestery@winternet.com>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Alpha. Which endian? 
Cc: Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
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From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <Pine.GSO.3.96.980827170754.6480A-100000@tundra.winternet.com> Kyle Mestery writes:
: The StrongARM from Intel (formerly DEC) also can run in either endian
: mode.  Unfourtanetly, WRS chose to make their VxWorks port little-endian.
: Oh well.:)

Ken Murphey also reminded me that PowerPC does this.

Warner

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