On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 11:38:35 -0500 (EST) "Andrew A. Gill" <superluser at frontiernet.net> wrote: > Unless my mind is really going, Alpha has the same endianness as > x86 (little-endian). Apple is big-endian. Alpha and PPC are both switchable, actually. But other than that, you're correct (just checked)...