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From: ndiamond@watdaisy.UUCP (Norman Diamond)
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Subject: Re: The importance of optional alignment
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Date: Thu, 21-Mar-85 14:03:06 EST
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> What I was complaining about was that
> there was no feature for defeating it even on machines like the VAX where
> the hardware will support it easily.  It would be nice to read structures
> from other machines (like PDP-11's) sometime.
> -Ron

Not only that, the same feature is necessary on machines where the hardware
doesn't support it easily.  Maybe no one needs to read anything on a PDP-11
any more, but they probably want to read stuff on Z-8000 machines.

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   Norman Diamond

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