Correction: > On Jun 27, 2020, at 3:37 PM, René J.V. Bertin via X11-users > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Note that ARM is bi-endian; apparently it does default to little-endian, but > we all know that Apple's PPC machines (also ARM architecture!)…
Sorry but no. The PowerPC alliance of Apple, IBM and Motorola were known as AIM. There was no connection to ARM architecture, apart from PPC chips also being RISC architecture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC Apple was involved with and investing in ARM early on. ARM architecture was used in the Apple Newton! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture To quote from the Wikipedia article: > In the late 1980s, Apple Computer > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer> and VLSI Technology > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLSI_Technology> started working with Acorn on > newer versions of the Arm core. In 1990, Acorn spun off the design team into > a new company named Advanced RISC Machines Ltd., which became Arm Ltd when > its parent company, Arm Holdings <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm_Holdings> > plc, floated on the London Stock Exchange > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Stock_Exchange> and NASDAQ > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASDAQ> in 1998. The new Apple-Arm work would > eventually evolve into the Arm6, first released in early 1992. Apple used the > Arm6-based Arm610 as the basis for their Apple Newton > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton> PDA. :-Derek ———————————— Derek G Currie [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] ————————————
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