On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Giles Lean wrote:

> Rumour had it at the time the first such bi-endian chip came out that
> porting a certain OS was easier if the target was little endian.  I
> never chased the rumour down to find out if it was true or not.

It also makes accessing PCI devices easier.

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