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linsomniac on June 27, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: NeXTSTEP on the HP 712 Part 2: Getting Software

One interesting thing about the 712 "Gecko" was that it had a bi-endian CPU. So it could run HPUX in big endian, and Windows NT in little endian.

ginko on June 27, 2020 [–]

ARM also allows you to change the endianness.

ARMv7: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc....

ARMv8: https://developer.arm.com/docs/den0024/latest/armv8-register...

rbanffy on June 27, 2020 | [–]

IIRC POWER can also do that.

arcticbull on June 27, 2020 | | [–]

PowerPC too. Most of them anyways, with the notable exception of the 970 (“G5”)

protomyth on June 27, 2020 | | [–]

The 970 was such a pain because of this, Virtual PC needed it to emulate the x86. I remember a massive delay.

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