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Mixed-Endian Systems

To use the PCI bus and achieve compatibility with a wide range of expansion card designs, PCI-based Power Macintosh computers are forced to be mixed-endian. This section discusses some of the issues that result from mixed-endian system design.

Transmitting Addresses

Byte-Swapping Issues

Byte Swapping and Frame Buffers

Address Swizzling