One little endian question

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Mar 03, 2008, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>Quoting Bill Campbell (Sun, 2 Mar 2008 16:38:32 -0800):
>[...]
>>What big endian platforms does FilePro run on?
>[...]
>
>AIX and Linux on the PowerPC, plus HP-UX come to mind.  (Of course, there
>used to be lots of big-endian platforms around to which filePro was ported.
>Many of those no longer exist.  When was the last time an NCR Tower or an
>AT&T 3B2 was made?  How many here even heard of Plexus?)

Don't forget the Tandy Model 16/6000 machines on which many members of this
list started with FilePro.

I've heard of Plexus, but never worked with them.  I did do some work on a
Sequent with DYNIX/PTX -- which had a C compilter that didn't recognize
ansi function prototypes, and I had to do some hacking on gcc to get it to
build on the Sequent so I could build any of my software.

The script I posted before using ``uname -p'' may work on many of these
machines, although uname tends to have some ``interesting'' variations
depending on the *nix platform, some of which are used by gnu-configure to
determine the platform.  The version of uname from the gnu coreutils does
support this -- but returns ``unknown'' on at least one Linux system I
have here (the ``uname -a | grep -i ppc'' does work).

Bill
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