Jeff

https://bitbang.social/@overeducatedredneck

I run Chimera, OpenBSD & NetBSD.
Favorite retrocomputing topics: Unix History, installing NetBSD on retro computers.

Bay Area denizen, rides motorcycles, races 24 Hours of Lemons, #actuallyautistic he/him

Professionally: SRE, funemployed

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2026-07-27 19:06:11 CEST

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It's that Kirkland. Headquarters is in Issaquah now, and (per wikipedia) the original store was in Seattle, but got rebuilt and moved slightly north, so the original-original building/store no longer exists.
Now I have to figure out if I'm feeling silly enough for ~4hr of driving for gelato on Thursday (I'm in Washington, just on the wrong side of Puget Sound :-).

2025-07-23 04:39:46 CEST

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The PDP-11 is (mostly) little endian, and pre-dates all of Intel's processors. Intel's endianness comes from the Datapoint 2200, which was bit serial, and the carry circuitry is simpler if you do things little-endian.
Honestly, I think the real answer is that big endian is easier to diagram if you come from a culture with a left-to-right writing system and a habit of putting zero on the left on graph axis.
(I like little endian systems)