I recall that w/ the Plexus P/15 (and P/20) though the P/35 had some issues
w/
interchangeability.
There were others but some I'd rather not remember.
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I think that the 68000 is a simple bigendian. On the other hand I worked
with a system that used a 68000 on an Intel Multibus. This causes a few
problems. The weirdest was that the tape controller swapped bytes, so we
had to use "dd if=/dev/tape swab | tar ..." for everything.
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On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, John Campbell wrote:
> Please note that this has also been referred to as "byte sex" as well.
>
> Back (many years ago) I worked in a company where I ported their Business
> BASIC interpreter to multiple platforms so the byte sex / endianness was
> one of the first things characterized before we checked how complete the
> Unix API was (there were some serious "Joe Isuzu Unix"es out there in the
> mid-late 1980s).
>
> You learn a lot about portation requirements when you deal with some of
the
> weirder byte orders (like the NS32032 chip). Speaking of NS32K chips,
> anybody down under remember "Labtam"?
>
Yep. Their office was next to mine in Canberra. Good salesman, hardly
ever there;-)
They used a 68000 processor - in a device controller.
You reminded me: I found my old boss from about '71 and a couple of
times ater on the 'net a couple of days ago. Wuz thinking I should point
him at the Hercules project;-)
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