From: already5chosen@yahoo.com   
      
   On Sun, 12 Oct 2025 10:14:08 -0000 (UTC)   
   Thomas Koenig  wrote:   
      
   > Anton Ertl  schrieb:   
   > > Thomas Koenig  writes:   
   > >>There is something to be said for at least having a big-endian   
   > >>system around to test programs:  If people mismatch types, there   
   > >>is a chance that it will blow up on a big-endian system and work   
   > >>silently on a little-endian system.   
   > >   
   > > If the only thing wrong with the software is that it does not work   
   > > on big-endian systems, and little-endian has won, is there really   
   > > anything wrong with the software?   
   >   
   > A type mismatch?  I think so.   
   >   
   > >>And of course, this is all due to an architecture which is arguably   
   > >>the most influential of all times (or at least has the highest   
   > >>ratio of influence to recognition level, but that by a _huge_   
   > >>margin): The Datapoint 2200.   
   > >   
   > > Another widely-used architecture today inherited its byte order from   
   > > the 6502.   
   >   
   > Which one?   
      
   Arm. It was designed as CPU for successor of 6502-based BBC Micro.   
      
   But does 6502 really have "byte order" in hardware? Or just "soft"   
   conventions of BBC BASIC interpreter?   
      
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