alt Hacker NewsThe fact that different parts of the file use different endiannesses really added that special Apple tech flavour.
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NSUserDefaults • today at 11:41 AM
At this point if a file format could have rounded corners I’m sure it would too.
1970-01-01 • today at 2:40 PM
"You're holding it wrong", but in binary.
The BOM file format is very, very old - I think for the first decade of its life it actually lived on big-endian platforms (m68k/SPARC/PA-RISC NeXTSTEP, and then over to Apple and big-endian PowerPC.)
EDIT - someone needs to crack open x86 OPENSTEP and do some grepping for 'RATC'...