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Is SPARC even used before? Also what do you have against little endian??

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Yeah, SPARC is the architecture that Sun Microsystems workstations used, and what Solaris originally ran on. It's actually really cool, the killer feature I like about it is the sliding register window – basically, SPARC processors have a stack of up to 640 non-global registers, 24 of which are accessible at any given time. At every call/return instruction, the window moves, exposing a different set of registers. It pretty much eliminates the need to manually push registers onto the stack before calling a function.

Also, I don't really have anything against little-endian, I just think it'd be funny to revive long-dead computer science holy wars.

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