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Re: Default endianess



On 1/21/06 3:44 AM, John Stiles didst favor us with:

> Laurence Harris wrote:
>> I know this was discussed at least to some extent a while back, but I don't
>> recall that there was ever a definitive answer. With little endian machines
>> being the future of the Mac, doesn't it make more sense to design new,
>> proprietary file formats to use little endian instead of big?
>> 
> Yes.

Thanks. That sounds definitive to me. ;-)
> 
> Is there a deeper question here? That one seemed a bit softball. :)

No, nothing hidden here. I just seem to recall that there wasn't a clear
consensus before and I couldn't see any reason to favor big endian given
what's coming.

Larry

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