Hello!

I was in the belive that all computers running Windows 2000 or Windows XP
were of the little endian type. Although I haven't found any big endian
computers, I think I'm wrong. Could someone give me examples of known
computer (processor) brands that are big endian and are able to run Windows
2000/XP.

Thank you guys (and girls).

/David.

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
Pavel A. <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>All existing Microsoft Windows systems (including WinCE on all platforms)
work in little endian mode only.
>
>--PA
>

>"David Lindgren" <(E-Mail Removed)!> wrote in message
>news:%(E-Mail Removed)... > Hello! > > I was
>in the belive that all computers running Windows 2000 or Windows XP >
>were of the little endian type. Although I haven't found any big
>endian > computers, I think I'm wrong. Could someone give me examples
>of known > computer (processor) brands that are big endian and are
>able to run Windows > 2000/XP. > > Thank you guys (and girls). > >
>/David. >


There are several RISC chips that are dual-endian (MIPS, Alpha ?)
When running NT they use the little endian mode. Microsoft hasn't
built a version of NT any of these chips for years. All the
architecture-specific code is supposed to be in hal.dll.

OT: Starting a couple of months ago I see lots Usenet postings with
very long (effectivly unwrapped) which annoy my Unenst reader and make
me wrap any lines that exceed 71 chars. I assume some new GUI
newsreader software was just shipped set to default to soft
linebreaks. If you don't want your post reparagraphed as I did,
above, please adjust your software.

I've only been using usenet since about 1986. This is a new.

--
Al Dykes
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adykes at p a n i x . c o m

All existing Microsoft Windows systems (including WinCE on all platforms) work in little endian mode only.

--PA

"David Lindgren" <(E-Mail Removed)!> wrote in message news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello!
>
> I was in the belive that all computers running Windows 2000 or Windows XP
> were of the little endian type. Although I haven't found any big endian
> computers, I think I'm wrong. Could someone give me examples of known
> computer (processor) brands that are big endian and are able to run Windows
> 2000/XP.
>
> Thank you guys (and girls).
>
> /David.
>
>

Hmm. Okey. Reason why I suspected otherwise is that one of our customers had
problems that I didn't experience on my machine. I thought I tracked it down
to to this line of code:
UnicodeEncoding UE = new UnicodeEncoding();

I read that the default constructor used the system default mode (litte/big
endian) and that there was another constructor with which you could specify
which mode to use. However if you say that all are little endian I suppose
this must not be the reason to his problems. I have not yet got any
information of what kind of computer he's got.

Is there anything else that can effect Unicode encoding? I'm thinking of the
systems current language settings etc. I'm also using the built in MD5Hash
function. Could that one behave different on different kinds of systems?

/David.


"Pavel A." <(E-Mail Removed)> skrev i meddelandet
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> All existing Microsoft Windows systems (including WinCE on all platforms)
work in little endian mode only.
>
> --PA
>
> "David Lindgren" <(E-Mail Removed)!> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Hello!
> >
> > I was in the belive that all computers running Windows 2000 or Windows
XP
> > were of the little endian type. Although I haven't found any big endian
> > computers, I think I'm wrong. Could someone give me examples of known
> > computer (processor) brands that are big endian and are able to run
Windows
> > 2000/XP.
> >
> > Thank you guys (and girls).
> >
> > /David.
> >
> >
>
>