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How an Accident of Hardware Design Encouraged Open Source (O'ReillyNet)How an Accident of Hardware Design Encouraged Open Source (O'ReillyNet)Posted Mar 1, 2007 7:18 UTC (Thu) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246)In reply to: How an Accident of Hardware Design Encouraged Open Source (O'ReillyNet) by MBR Parent article: How an Accident of Hardware Design Encouraged Open Source (O'ReillyNet)
On VAX vs. PDP, you're mostly right. I found this amusing article which indicates that for integers, VAX was pure little endian, and for floating point it retained PDP endian. How's that for wacky?
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