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To: Paul Engel who wrote (60680)	10/28/2001 1:50:59 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Paul, Re: "Is the Hammer capable of handling BOTH Little Endian and Big Endian words?" No, but the Itanium is. wanna_bmw

To: Paul Engel who wrote (60680)	10/28/2001 2:45:23 PM
From: dale_laroy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

>Isn't IRIX written for the MIPS architecture, which is a Big Endian type machine.< MIPS is not Big Endian, it is a switch hitter. SGI chose to use the Big Endian mode for compatibility with the 68K (if I recall correctly, even DEC used the Big Endian mode although VAX was Little Endian). Although there would be significant porting effort, Irix can be ported to a Little Endian architecture, just as Linux can be run on either Little Endian or Big Endian processors.