There has never been an issue with NeXT's distributed objects and
endianness as far as I know.
NeXT's DO certainly worked seamlessly between
Openstep Mach on 68000
Openstep Intel
Openstep Enterprise/PDO running on top of Windows NT on Intel
Openstep Mach SPARC
Openstep running on top of Solaris SPARC
Openstep running on top of HP-UX on PA-RISC
I have foggy memories of possibly using NeXT's "Portable Distributed
Objects" (PDO) on DEC Alpha.
The protocol deals with endianess internally. It probably just
standardizes on one endian convention and automatically converts from
the wrong one.
What has NEVER worked in distributed object between Openstep and
Gnustep. GNUstep uses slightly different protocols and more
importantly, the systems archive objects differently. DO between
Openstep/Cocoa and GNUstep definitely does NOT work unless something
has changed in the last year or so.
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