On Thu, 23 Jul 1998 13:40:41 -0400 (EDT) 
 Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com> wrote:

 > : BTW, powerpc is also bi-endian architecture. What do they do ?
 > 
 > IIRC, all the NetBSD powerpc architectures are big-endian.

And, AFAIK, the systems where little-endian OSs run on PowerPC (e.g. Solaris,
when it existed for PowerPC), the hardware was switchable at run-time.

Most PowerPC systems are either BE or switchable to BE, I think.

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