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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12146 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    > What he means by cost? [...] a well designed memory protection system wont be
    > noticeable to the use performance wise.

    I think that copying the contents of a memory area is always slower than just passing a pointer.

    >> For MorphOS to keep backward compability a true bigendian mode is required.

    > For backwards compatibility you use an emulator.

    Yes, that's what's done in MorphOS (and OS4). And for such transparent emulation you need a matching byte order, as Zylesea correctly points out.
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