on 26/07/00 22:00, Nesse, Rustin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If you're switching over to an Intel architecture, then wouldn't
> the 68k Motorola code present with current apps be worthless?
> Perhaps they can provide a strong degree of emulation? (Which
> shouldn't be so bad...most apps are developed for < 20 MHz, and
> they're going to be emulated on 200 MHz processor-based machines)
If I recall well, the ARM line of processors can work in both big- and
little- endian, like the PowerPC. Therefore, running the StrongARM in big
endian would not be a problem. What _will_ be, however, is all the bad third
party code which relies on word sizes without using sizeof <g>
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