[SunRescue] Q on "optimal" OS for Sun4c machines, now that Solaris 8 won't run

[Matthew Haas]

On Thu, 13 Jul 2000 Ed.Mitchell at centigram.com wrote:
>
> The eerie part is running into people that don't understand endian-ness or
> why it should even matter.  As an aside, I recently read that the PowerPC
> arch doesn't give a rat's behind about the endianess expectations of
> software executing on it.  On other words, it seems to be able to figure
> out what endian-ness your data is in and can act accordingly.  Anyone shed
> light on this?
>

I don't know but I've heard that one of Intel's next generation chips
(Merced? If that still exists) can do the same.

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