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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Ada OS Kernel features
Date: 5 Sep 2001 13:51:28 -0500
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In article <9n5o9n$37a$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net>, "Brian Catlin" <briancatlin@mindspring.com> writes:

> I don't want to start a flame war, or get too far off topic, but big-endian just
> doesn't make sense (at least compared to little-endian).  In little-endian, you
> count your bits and bytes from right to left, all the way to infinity.

An Ada Operating System should work with existing hardware.
That includes both types of hardware.