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From: jg@max.crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys)
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Subject: Re: DS3100 questions - which Endian? (Compiling NCAR2.0)
Keywords: NCAR endian big little mips fortran cc TeX
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Date: 11 Aug 89 16:36:42 GMT
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The DECstation 3100 is "little endian"; i.e. it has the same byte order as
a VAX or an Intel processor (IBM PC).

Note that floating point is IEEE, however.

-EL is the default on the DECstation.

TeX runs just fine on the DECstation.  It is available from U. Washington, as
usual.  TeX in C was one of the early programs run as a benchmark.