On Sat, 25 Jul 1998 13:28:36 -0400 (EDT) 
 Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com> wrote:

 > - Change the big-endian MIPS (the newcomer) to "mipseb".  Leave "mips" as-is
 >   on the existing platforms which have had a 1.3.x release (newsmips has not
 >   had a public release yet).
 > 
 > - Change both platforms to "mipsel" and "mipseb".  Less desirable because of
 >   the existing "mips" releases.

The latter is the correct thing.  We can just announce that 1.3.2 and earlier
"mips" meant "mipsel".

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