>> Most UNIXes (for example, all System V) and the Internet are Big Endian. Mo >torola 680x0 microprocessors (and therefore Macintoshes), Hewlett-Packard >> PA-RISC, and Sun SuperSPARC processors are Big Endian. The Silicon Graphics > MIPS and IBM/Motorola PowerPC processors are both Little and Big Endian >> (bi-endian). Strictly speaking this is not correct either. Unix per se doesn't have endianess, but the CPU platform does. Also to be nitpicking, the Internet doesn't have endianess, but Internet protocols do (big-endian), SMB being one major exception (guess why). -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
