On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Simon Burge wrote:
> > For termcap.db, I'm proposing we make it a little-endian Berkeley
> > DB.  My first thought was to make it big-endian, as BE is the basis
> > of network-byte ordering and it seemed like "tradition".  However, (I
> > think) the slowest machines we have are some of the Vaxs, and they're
> > little endian and every little bit helps those machines :-).
> 
> second slowest is probably all the m68k ports, and i guess they outnumber
> the VAXens a fair bit, so I guess you would probably help more people if
> you'd put this BE.

	Plus using network byte order is less likely to violate the
	Principle of Least Surprise..

		David/absolute

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