as it turns out there are a lot of crazy little bugs in the system due to running for so long on 32-bit machines. i'm sure that we're in a similar situation with endianness, but perhaps even worse.
to keep everybody honest, i'd like to dig up some sort of plausable big-endian machine. since the point here is to swat bugs, not write a new kernel, i would be especially nice if a kernel already existed. another big bonus would be hardware that still exists and doesn't require a soldering iron to keep running. :-) - erik
