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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
That is partially true. But in Tiff files and many others the data is arranged differently. To this day when I save a Tiff file I can tell it Mac or Windows order. Apple has always played in their own little playground and never cared about how to play well with others.
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Byte order, endianes, is determined by hardware, CPU, not OS, so yes, when Macs ran on PPC which is big endian the byte order was different than x86 which is little endian.
Had nothing to do with Apple playing in their own playground.
NT Server used to run on PPC and was big endian.