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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
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Subject: Re: Re: What's Nu with VME for Mac?
Message-ID: <1315@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Wed, 19-Nov-86 17:53:29 EST
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In article <4523@ism780c.UUCP>, tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) writes:
> Why doesn't Sun use the Tapemaster-A, which will do the byte swapping
> by itself?

Perhaps by now they do.  I know they leaned on Tapemaster for years to
get this solved.  The point remains that using big endian byte order on
the Multibus was a hassle, though the market eventually moved to make
it easier.  I presume that if enough people build little endian VMEbus
systems, the same thing will happen to VMEbus peripherals.
-- 
John Gilmore  {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu   jgilmore@lll-crg.arpa
    "I can't think of a better way for the War Dept to spend money than to
  subsidize the education of teenage system hackers by creating the Arpanet."