Fwd: [self-interest] Snapshot binary compatibility ?

[Tripp Lilley]

On Thu, 4 Jul 2002 parnet at insightbb.com wrote:

> For Mach-sters and Squeak-sters and intercessory
> reflection-sters  what the hell is endianess?

Briefly put, the order in which the processor expects to see the bytes in
multiple-byte values (e.g., the four bytes of a 32-bit integer):

	http://www.treedragon.com/ged/fe/no/endianess.htm