I think the author is talking about something else (or is confused), the Motorola 68K processors were big-endian and the PowerPC had a big-endian mode (which wa

I think the author is talking about something else (or is confused), the Motorola 68K processors were big-endian and the PowerPC had a big-endian mode (which was used by both PowerMacs and other POWER architecture systems). Intel x86 processors are little-endian. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness#Endianness_and_hardware http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness#Endianness_and_hardw...