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Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 13:18:52 -0500 (EST)
From: Hollis R Blanchard <hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: "David A. Gatwood" <dgatwood@deepspace.mklinux.org>
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Subject: Re: NT PPC
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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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