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twic on Jan 20, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Is big-endian dead?

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https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/2652/when...

The internet was big-endian from the start, and that was probably because DEC machines were big-endian.

tjalfi on Jan 20, 2018 [–]

DEC's PDP-11, VAX, and Alpha were all little-endian. Alpha was biendian but Cray Research was the only vendor that shipped a big endian configuration.

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