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What big-endian hardware worth mentioning exists now, if we exclude historical hardware which we maybe want to keep up, but which is not produced any more?

Asking unironically.

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AFAIK many Mikrotik MIPS routers are big-endian. Also Ubiquiti Edgerouters based on Cavium Octeon MIPS CPU.

Honest question, is there any network router that runs an X client or server? I have never seen something like that...

People run lots of junk on openwrt routers, no reason not to run X clients from them.

Except that web interfaces will probably always be a better way to remotely access those devices.

IBM Power chips can run in both big and little endian modes

In fact, Power ISA is probably the last architecture where both modes still have notable importance: AIX, IBM i and OpenBSD still run Power big, FreeBSD runs it big but work exists to run it little, and most Linux distros run it little (not counting 32-bit PowerPC, which pretty much always ran big).

Most of the other notionally bi-endian architectures nowadays have settled on one. For example, SPARC is just about exclusively big; conversely, ARM64 got rid of their big-endian mode.

IBM mainframes are big-endian, including both IBM mainframe Linux (z/Linux) and the traditional mainframe operating systems (z/OS, z/VM, VSEn, z/TPF)

Oracle's SPARC servers are still manufactured and sold.

My Tadpole Ultrasparc laptop that I love...

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