--- In [email protected], Vijaya Rama Raju Jampani <vijaya.jamp...@...> wrote: > I want to know why Little Endian Machines are cheaper than Big > Endian.?
What evidence do you have for this? You can vaguely argue that most personal computers are cheaper than large servers. And most pcs use intel in little endian modes whereas larger servers tend to be in big endian mode. [I'm doing a lot of handwaving in saying that.] But the cost difference is not about the endian-ness. Apple's pcs used to use big endian cpus and they were certainly more expensive than wintel 'clones', but again, the cost difference had virtually nothing to do with the cost of the cpus. > After a search in the web, I came to know that it is something > related to Registers. But with no clarification. Which sites did you visit? Many modern CPUs can do either big or little endian memory reads and writes based on a flag in the instruction code. Registers themselves do not have endian properties. -- Peter
