(snip debate)
> My POINT is that there is absolutely no technical reason to prefer one
> over the other.
>
> And like it or not, LE is very dominant due to PC's and the MS inability
> to work with BE machines on NT. So LE isn't going away any time soon.
>
> In short, the best we can hope for is to just end the confusion, and
> that BE will fade. No, I don't think that's likely either, but it's
> better than having two different byteorders with no technical reason to
> chose between the two.
>
> Avoid confusion.
Anyway, who had the <sarcasm>BRILLIANT</sarcasm> idea of building a CPU
in which you can choose the byte order? What was that for? Making both
Windows-ists and Mac-ists happy?
-- ___THE___ One man alone cannot fight the future. USE LINUX! \ \ / / _______________________________________________ \ V / |Juan Carlos Castro y Castro | \ / |jcastro@pcshop.com.br | / \ |Linuxeiro, alvinegro, X-Phile e Carioca Folgado| / ^ \ |Diretor de Informática e Eventos Sobrenaturais | / / \ \ |da E-RACE CORPORATION | ~~~ ~~~ ----------------------------------------------- RACER- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/