Software and hardware obsolescence in the kernel

Posted Aug 30, 2020 9:06 UTC (Sun) by anton (subscriber, #25547)
In reply to: Software and hardware obsolescence in the kernel by ppisa
Parent article: Software and hardware obsolescence in the kernel

You work out the network effects nicely. And I guess that PCI (and followons) have a stronger network effect than network protocols, because network latencies are so large and bandwidth on most machines so low that you can afford byte reversal easier than when accessing PCI/PCIe peripherals.

XDR (used by RPC) and NFS were developed at Sun, which was big-endian (68000 and SPARC). Concerning TCP, IP, and UDP, I don't know what hardware was used for developing that, and if it even was byte-addressed (while also supporting longer words in hardware; if not, byte order is not an issue as far as the hardware is concerned).