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Date:      Mon, 4 Feb 2008 14:36:52 +0100
From:      "Heiko Wundram (Beenic)" <wundram@beenic.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Endianness of freeBSD
Message-ID:  <200802041436.52389.wundram@beenic.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080204142943.U8012@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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Am Montag, 4. Februar 2008 14:30:12 schrieb Wojciech Puchar:
> > the Windows NT days, which ran on Alpha workstations which were
> > big-endian.
>
> Alpha is little endian. i had alpha 21066 running linux.

Not true. Alpha is big- or little-endian (so, it's bi-endian), depending on 
how it's booted, and IIRC the Windows NT version running on Alpha used the 
big-endian mode of the CPU. But I might be mistaken.

-- 
Heiko Wundram
Product & Application Development



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