[rescue] Endian-ness (Was: FDDI card)

[Harri Haataja]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 08:01:57AM -0500, Jeff Workman wrote:
> Stoned koalas drooled eucalyptus spit in awe as James Sharp exclaimed:
> > 1) There's always going to be a bottleneck in network IO as every byte
> > that comes into the system has to be flipped around.  PC byteorder !=
> > network byte order.
> 
> As for this problem, the same could be said about the Alpha, and the VAX. 
> Does anybody know why DEC decided to go little-endian?  Even their 
> MIPS-based systems are LSB and I never understood why.

They flipped a coin?

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