IBM 850 - Open Firmware or not? and more on the ide byteswapgame...

[David Edelsohn]

>>>>> David Monro writes:

David> According to the PREP spec Solaris/PPC was also little-endian!
David> Presumably they decided PReP machines looked more like PCs than sparcs.

	It's more that Sun used their x86 Solaris base for all of their
non-SPARC ports, and their x86 base was little endian.  Everyone thought
that more software would be available for little-endian OSes.

David

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