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From: dennisg@fritz.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k
Subject: Re: Byte ordering, and pros/cons
Message-ID: <2784@fritz.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 9-Dec-86 20:20:26 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  9 20:20:26 1986
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Reply-To: dennisg@fritz.UUCP (Dennis Griesser)
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In article <2758@gitpyr.gatech.EDU> jkg@gitpyr.UUCP (Jim Greenlee) writes:
>do all the swapping :-). I honestly don't see what difference it makes -
>I mean, after all, both schemes work, don't they?

Both schemes do work, in isolation.  The problem is when a network has
both types of machines on it.  Somebody is going to have to incur the
penalty for swapping.  Do you want it to be your machine?  Of course the
cost could be time, by doing the swap in software.  Or you can do it in
silicon and copper... and the box is more expensive.

And if you aren't talking on a network, you still have the problem of
integrating a spiffy big-endian peripheral chip with that little-endian
CPU you have.