Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!mcnc!decvax!crltrx!max.crl.dec.com!jg From: jg@max.crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: DS3100 questions - which Endian? (Compiling NCAR2.0) Keywords: NCAR endian big little mips fortran cc TeX Message-ID: <321@crltrx.crl.dec.com> Date: 11 Aug 89 16:36:42 GMT References: <8588@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Sender: news@crltrx.crl.dec.com Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Cambridge Research Laboratory Lines: 9 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.