Re: Linux/IA-64 byte order

Scott Manley (spm@star.arm.ac.uk)
Tue, 09 Mar 1999 08:57:57 +0000

What About the alphas? I was under the impression they were 64 bit and Little
Endian - there's already a 64bit linux which is little endian.

And as for
> In the astronomy community, big-endian machines dominate
Armagh observatory hasn't got a single Big endian machine - 40 Linux PC's and
about 15 Alphas (abotu 10 running linux).

Actually I lie... I have a sparc 2 at home, and there's an IPC I've hooked up
to some old disks to serve some disks...

;-)

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