Hi Richard, On 17/08/23 22:27, Richard Z wrote:
Nitpicking now, there is nothing classic about little endian as all older computers were either big or mid endian.
Right, but IDE was introduced on little endian hardware. Maybe 'IDE default byte order' would be more exact here.
It is rather some rare ide host adapters like the Q40 one reversed the byte order of 16bit words which was cheap and convenient in the 1980-9ies but not interoperable with the large majority of other host adapters resulting in a reversed byte/16bit order on disk.
True - installing an IDE disk from e.g. Atari on a Mac, Amiga or PC wasn't something you'd have antcipated at that time. Floppy disks were for data interchange.
Cheers, Michael
Richard
