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Operating Systems => macOS => Topic started by: cahult on 28 August 2003, 19:45

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Post by: cahult on 28 August 2003, 19:45

MacWorld UK has an article where Microsoft says that Virtual PC is incompatible with Apple

Title: Yet another M
Post by: flap on 28 August 2003, 20:10

big- and little-endian refer to the order in which bytes are stored in memory. With big-endian architectures the most significant byte is stored first (lower in memory), with little-endian, it's stored last.

e.g. the number 258 as a 2 byte integer is stored in big-endian representation as
00000001 00000010

With little-endian it's
00000010 00000001

Title: Yet another M
Post by: cahult on 29 August 2003, 02:17

OK, thanks. Your explanation made it easier to understand the article.

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Post by: Laukev7 on 29 August 2003, 03:25

Why are there two endians? What's so different about the order in which bytes are stored? Is one better than the other?

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Post by: suselinux on 29 August 2003, 05:34

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Originally posted by cahult:



The article says something about a thing called endians. What are these? Anyone care to enlighten me on this?

[ August 28, 2003: Message edited by: cahult ]

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North American Natives

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Post by: hm_murdock on 29 August 2003, 16:06

or anyone of endian descent, typically from Endia. ;)

p.s.: the incompatibility is actually IBM's fault if you wanna point fingers. they designed the 970. MS simply bought the existing VPC code and hired the dev team.

[ August 29, 2003: Message edited by: Jimmy James is COOL ]

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Post by: billy_gates on 31 August 2003, 21:02

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Originally posted by Jimmy James is COOL:
or anyone of endian descent, typically from Endia. ;)

p.s.: the incompatibility is actually IBM's fault if you wanna point fingers. they designed the 970. MS simply bought the existing VPC code and hired the dev team.

[ August 29, 2003: Message edited by: Jimmy James is COOL ]

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I think its connectix's fault.  They programmed it so specific for G4 and G3 that it doesn't work on G5's.  Where the just expecting Apple to stay on the G4 for the rest of time??
MS and Connectix should have seen this coming.

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Post by: Faust on 31 August 2003, 23:22

Er isnt Big vs Little Endian a Gullivers Travels reference?  Dude goes to an island, finds lots of tiny people fighting a war based on whether or not you cut off the little or big end of the egg before you eat it?

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Post by: flap on 1 September 2003, 00:05

Yes, that's where the terms come from.

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Post by: hm_murdock on 1 September 2003, 04:41

I thought it had something to do with Endia!!!!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! lol  :D