1 Feb
2012
1 Feb
'12
11:05 a.m.
On 02/01/2012 01:48 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
On 2/1/12 10:12 AM, Mouse wrote:
That figures.
It looked to me as though they wanted to be able
to
share data structures in memory between code running big-endian and
code running little-endian without having to byte-swap when crossing
the endianness boundary
It was put in for NT support, since NT had a lot of hard-coded knowledge
that it was
running on a little-endian architecture. Connectix used it for SoftPC until it disappeared in
the G5. That was
probably
the biggest use of it in the MacOS world.
Ah-HA! So THAT'S why SoftPC never worked right on G5s.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA