From: Hollis R Blanchard <hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: "David A. Gatwood" <dgatwood@deepspace.mklinux.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: NT PPC
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 13:18:52 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96L.1001029131732.4178E-100000@unix5.andrew.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1001029102424.31042A-100000@deepspace.mklinux.org>
On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, David A. Gatwood wrote:
>
> All PowerPC machines running Linux are big-endian, by nature. There's a
> little-endian hack... err... mode in the processor, but I'm not aware of
> any OS that uses it except possibly the ill-fated Windows NT port that was
> never released.... :-/
It was released and it actually worked. If you have an NT 4.0 CD it's on
there.
The trick was finding software... SP1 and IE 2.0 don't take you very far.
-Hollis
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-10-29 18:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-10-28 20:19 BIG ENDIAN or LITTLE ENDIAN Michael Norton
2000-10-28 20:39 ` Tom Vier
2000-10-28 22:12 ` David Riley
2000-10-29 18:25 ` David A. Gatwood
2000-10-29 18:18 ` Hollis R Blanchard [this message]
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