On Sat, 25 Jul 1998 10:33:39 -0700 (PDT) 
 Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU> wrote:

 > The person who designed that ``promise'' didnt' think about bi-endian
 > machines at the time.  It was discussed again in April.  The decision
 > was not to split ${MACHINE_ARCH}.  CGD and Jason Thorpe concurred.
 > I see a couple of messages from you in the thread, even.

So maybe I changed my mind.  Perhaps I didn't fully grok the problem back
then.  Or perhaps you're confused.  Regardless, "mipsel" and "mipseb" are
the Right Thing, IMNSHO.

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