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Along with MIPS. The significance of which is that it led to a lot of network gear using one of these 3 architectures. Now most network data planes are in ASIC
by jpgvm 3y ago
Along with MIPS. The significance of which is that it led to a lot of network gear using one of these 3 architectures. Now most network data planes are in ASIC and increasingly these BE ISAs are being supplanted by ARM but for a long time it held out as a bastion for PPC in particular.
- swiftcoder 3y agoARM still has big-endian mode for this niche. Modern ARM cores even have dynamically switchable endian for data
- codyd51 3y agoThat's awesome. Thanks for sharing.