> IMHO, software compatability should be a more important issue, ie
> with commercial shrink wrap. If people want to consider Ultrix
> binary compatability, little endian SPIM is the only way to go.
> If there's a SYSV MIPS ABI, we should comply with the endianness
> of that.
There is a MIPS SYSV ABI and it is big-endian. SGI is big-endian too.
So far I know is a Mips Magnum 3000 one of the reference platforms
for Mips-RiscOS 5.01, Irix SVR4 and Sony News. The Magnum 3000
is big-endian. It does not support switching to little-endian.
Andy
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