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From: pauls@Apple.COM (Paul Sweazey)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: When is RISC not RISC?
Summary: Handle Endian-ness in MMU
Message-ID: <25205@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 2 Feb 89 21:17:40 GMT
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How about a bit in the page tables that indicates the endian-ness of data accesses through that map?  Seems like the right place to me (and I didn't think it up either).

Paul Sweazey
pauls@apple.com