Although can we say that it's semi- or slightly evil since like most wire protocols back then it's big-endian, and today's systems aren't, excepting per Wikipedia and my memory anything derived from the 68000, like its present ColdFire version and Oracle Solaris on bi-endian SPARC systems, plus z/Architecture (IBM mainframes, which can run Linux), IBM AIX on bi-endian POWER (but not Linux on POWER). Today's two monster ISAs, x86 and ARM are little endian or bi-endian and default run little-endian, plus the perhaps up and coming New Hope/New Jersey style RISC-V.

I suppose this shouldn't matter for a language family that depends on garbage collection, and most if not all of the CPUs Schemes run on, but it's at least a nit, and perhaps makes looking at the bytes on the wire more difficult.