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Subject: Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Endianess of packet data
From: Andy Black <ablack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:28:15 -0600 
At 9:17 PM +0200 7/14/99, Artur Biesiadowski wrote:
>It seems to me that big endian data is used, but at the same time there
>is a test for other layout. Should I suppose that all modern
>servers/clients use bigendian in packets or should I detect this ?
>
>Artur

According to a reference book I have, 68000-base computers are big endian,
Intel (x86, Pentium, etc) procesors are little endian, PowerPC procesors
can be switched betwene modes, but the Mac OS is always in big endian mode.

Andy Black
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