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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/18/2022 11:03 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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.

As an anecdotal example: note that GNU Cobol default to
big endian on Linux and Windows x86-64.

Arne