Subj : enigma on M68K linux
To   : Digital Man
From : Oli
Date : Thu Jan 19 2023 02:53 pm

Digital wrote (2023-01-16):

 >>>>> Not much support for legacy or big-endian platforms.

 DM>>>> All PPC, most MIPS and some ARM systems are big-endian.

 >> All three architectures are big-endian AND little-endian.

 DM> I've written code for a lot of PPC-based systems, not one has ever been
 DM> little-endian. I do see they now exist, but appear to be pretty rare.

The little-endian implementations were not very successful ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC#Endian_modes

But big-endian for desktop and server has pretty much no future. IBM killed it.

 DM> Similarly, all the MIPS-based systems I've developed for have been
 DM> big-endian.

SGI was big-endian
Cobalt Qube/RaQ MIPS servers were little-endian
Playstation 1 and 2: little
Nintendo 64: big (IIRC)

Some routers and embedded hardware are little-, some big-endian.

MIPS is the true bi-endian architecture ;)

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