Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!RHT32.PCS.COM!hgw From: hgw@RHT32.PCS.COM (h.-g. willers) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Endianess again Message-ID: Date: 14 May 91 15:19:22 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 13 X-Unparsable-Date: Tue, 14 May 91 16:17:05 MEZ Endianess again! We are considering to build a VME-based computer board using a little endian processor. Is there any reason to swap bytes and shorts going from and to the (big endian) VME, or are things just more easy when we do not swap anything? -- No RISC, no fun! H.-G. Willers PCS-Mail: hgw internal phone ( -271 ) DOMAIN: hgw@rht32.pcs.de (EUR) or hgw@rht32.pcs.com (US) BANG: ..unido!pcsbst!hgw (EUR) or ..pyramid!pcsbst!hgw (US)