[Cialug] Access to big endian machine with C++ compiler

[David Champion]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness

... Alpha, MIPS, PA-RISC, IA64...

I bet you a dollar someone on this list has one (or a dozen) Sparc or 
Alpha machines in their basement they'd give away. I'd give you one, but 
I already gave all of mine away.

-dc

John Lengeling wrote:
> PowerPC, SPARC, 68K
>
> A bunch of newer version processors have a flag which will switch from
> one to the other.  Processors like Hitachi SH.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
> Behalf Of Daniel A. Ramaley
> Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 3:10 PM
> To: cialug at cialug.org
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Access to big endian machine with C++ compiler
>
> Just curious, what architectures are big-endian? A quick google search 
> wasn't helpful, leading me to conclude that i'm not sure what terms to 
> use for that sort of question.
>
> On 2009-11-13 at 14:25:51, Brian Wood wrote:
>   
>> Shalom
>>
>> Would anyone be interested in working out a deal with me to
>> allow me to login to a big endian computer and build/run some
>> tests?   My offer will consist of giving you an investment in
>> Ebenezer Enterprises.  I don't need to have 24/7 access to
>> it.
>>     
>
>