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From: wayne@bambi.UUCP (Wayne Wilner)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: byte alignment -- bit addressable memories
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Date: Mon, 14-May-84 17:15:14 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 14 17:15:14 1984
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Thanks to Mike Lutz for reminding all contributors to the
byte-alignment debate that bit-addressability is much nicer.
Just to save people effort when they reinvent that wheel,
the B1700's memory requests were of the form

	<starting bit-address> <direction> <length>

where the direction parameter indicated whether the address
referred to the left-most or right-most position.  This was
a great help in dealing with both little-Endian and big-Endian
data at the same time.

Wayne T. Wilner (...exodus!thumper!wayne)
Bell Communications Research