[Info-vax] Attn VSI employees: Viable full system Itanium emulator for VMS ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/18/2022 10:36 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 2/18/22 09:12, John Dallman wrote:
>> In article <69d0b812-0d53-42b6-af62-b0317973dfc9n at googlegroups.com>,
>> xyzzy1959 at gmail.com (John Reagan) wrote:
>>> On Thursday, February 17, 2022 at 2:28:46 PM UTC-5, Bill Gunshannon
>>>> I can't understand the interest in HP-UX at all. It's just
>>>> another proprietary Unix and not really one of the better ones.
>>> Big endian
>>
>> What makes big-endian attractive to end-user organisations?
> 
> What real difference does endianess make to anyone today?

Bad/ugly code may only work with specific endianess.

External data whether files or network protocols expecting
a specific endianess. One could argue that all such code should
use conversion functions between target and host to make
the code portable, but a lot of code is not doing that.

Arne