Subj : Synchronet can maybe...?
To   : Digital Man
From : Time Warrior
Date : Sun Jul 17 2005 06:11 am

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

  To: Digital Man
  Re: Synchronet can maybe...?
  By: Digital Man to Time Warrior on Sat Jul 16 2005 02:47 am

 >  > I am unfamiliar with the terms "little-endian" and "big-endian" however I
 >  > going to take a wild guess and say that this may possibly mean that lower
 >  > proccessors are supported where as much higher end proccessors are not
 >  > supported yet but scheduled for the v4 time-frame.

 > That would be an incorrect guess. "endianness" has nothing to do with how "h
 > end" a processor is or not, but rather the order in which it stores the byte
 > of multi-byte integers. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endian for details.

 ah ok.

 >  >  >  > I think that Macintrash going to the "Intel" Chipset is something
 >  >  >  > Synchronet could take advantage of.

 >  >  > Not really.

 >  > I disgree.

 > Really.

Yes.

 >  > The other day I met a guy local here who as it turns out he's an old
 >  > school BBS'er from back in the day. He did not know the scene exsiste
 >  > did not know about Synchronet or any of that until I showed him. He also
 >  > a MAC using OSX 10. He expressed interest in possibly running Synchronet
 >  > however I was forced to respond with "I am unsure as to whether or not th
 >  > would run on your Mac".

 >  > Seeing as he knows alot more about his Mac than I do, I'll have to have
 >  > jump in here and make these inquiries. I have insufficient information to
 >  > able to come to a conclusion on this, seeing as I am not too familar with
 >  > Macs.

....and this along with many other reasons, is why :-)

 > Currently, there is no such thing as a "little-endian" Mac.

Then I guess at present, it would not be able to run on OSX until v4.

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