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Re:Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010) by chasil on Friday July 29, 2022 @11:08AM (#32277927)
"The format is... endian-specific."

Wasn't there a SPARC port of Windows? Did it run on any other big-endian machines? Were the MIPS and POWER ports little-endian?

In any case, I can see why Microsoft paid SQLite for a custom set of features.

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Re:Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010) by rwmj on Friday July 29, 2022 @04:57PM (#32281676)
It's a very good question! There was also an Alpha port (both-endian and 64 bit). I've never seen a SPARC, POWER, MIPS or Alpha Windows registry so I don't know if hivex could decode them.
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Re:Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010) by the_why_of_y on Saturday July 30, 2022 @06:42AM (#32285728)
Larry Osterman said in 2005: A decision was made VERY long ago that Windows would not be ported to a big-endian processor.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190108142751/https://blogs.msd...

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