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Re: machtype on pMax

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Carr)
Fri Aug 25 09:56:44 1989

To: geer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 89 09:56:28 EDT
From: John Carr <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>

>i think that machtype -c must return something more
>expressive than ``MIPS''; i'd suggest ``MIPS-VAX''
>or something that indicates byte order

The convention is "mipsel" ("little endian mips") for the VAX
byte order version.


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