> > If one is to consider only hardware that is still being manufactured > > (ie: bought new), what are our options now? > > The only big-endian systems you can buy new nowadays, would be > Octeon-based systems. Some of them can run OpenBSD.
Oh good god. Just go to ebay and buy HP J6700/6750 or Sun v210/v215 machines. Big endian is one thing being talked about here, but those two platforms I just listed bring other other valuable "quirks" to the table.