Honestly, byte order didn't matter much. There were so many more dimensions of incompatibility available that byte-order didn't enter the picture when you were

Honestly, byte order didn't matter much. There were so many more dimensions of incompatibility available that byte-order didn't enter the picture when you were choosing a processor for a product. Most data was exchanged via files written to floppy disks, and you just wrote conversion utilities (or programs dealt with save formats on the fly).