Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 14:36:52 +0100 From: "Heiko Wundram (Beenic)" <wundram@beenic.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Endianness of freeBSD Message-ID: <200802041436.52389.wundram@beenic.net> In-Reply-To: <20080204142943.U8012@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <1563a4fd0802040403x2b71eaa1yd3d8f78e7742843b@mail.gmail.com> <200802041320.14955.wundram@beenic.net> <20080204142943.U8012@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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Am Montag, 4. Februar 2008 14:30:12 schrieb Wojciech Puchar: > > the Windows NT days, which ran on Alpha workstations which were > > big-endian. > > Alpha is little endian. i had alpha 21066 running linux. Not true. Alpha is big- or little-endian (so, it's bi-endian), depending on how it's booted, and IIRC the Windows NT version running on Alpha used the big-endian mode of the CPU. But I might be mistaken. -- Heiko Wundram Product & Application Development
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