On Feb 1,  7:04am, der Mouse wrote:
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} Aren't "old Ultrix" little-endian, just like the 80x86?

     Yes.  I discovered this when the university I was at first got a
Sun and talk wouldn't work between the brand new Sun 3/280, and the
old VAX 11/780, running 4.3BSD.  Here it is almost ten years later and
Sun's talk still doesn't work.

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