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Subject: Re: [9fans] MIPS LE fp register ordering in MOVD
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> You might be able to blame the play station 2 and the two different MIPS
> chips it had. I did two compilers. The FP was very unusual and one was LE
> and the other BE. Inferno port worked well.

Eventually, it seems that the second compiler was somehow absorbed: 0c
became a script to invoke vc, or somesuch.  Could you shed some light
on this?  Or was forsyth involved?  Bell Labs are consistently short
on rationales.

++L