Yes, I said I thought the Alpha was big endian and I was mistaken. Given that it is essentially the successor to the VAX, I should have known better.
--- "K.S. Bhaskar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Incidentally, the comments about the Alpha being big endian are > incorrect - x86 (and the AMD x64), VAX, and Alpha/AXP architectures > are > all little endian. IBM Power (pSeries) and mainframe (zSeries), Sun > SPARC, and HP PA-RISC are big endian. Itanium can be either - Linux > and > OpenVMS use it as a little endian machine and HP-UX uses it as a big > endian machine. > > -- Bhaskar === Gregory Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Design quality doesn't ensure success, but design failure can ensure failure." --Kent Beck ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
