The problem w/ Unix is that you're hooked to proprietary, hardware.
And it looks increasingly like little endian hardware has won the war (look at the new Macs running intel processors).
Little Endian rules. Big Endian Drools.
I have actually always preferred little...from an embedded perspective it makes more sense.
Well to be fair the problem with SUNS, IBM's, Apple's and HP's is that you get locked into hardware. FreeBSD/NetBSD has not such problem..