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From: bcase@Apple.COM (Brian Case)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.arch
Subject: Re: Bit Addressable Architectures
Message-ID: <7570@apple.Apple.Com>
Date: 5 Mar 88 02:38:22 GMT
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In article <7374@sol.ARPA> crowl@cs.rochester.edu (Lawrence Crowl) writes:
>In article <1988Mar3.182645.703@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp
>(Henry Spencer) writes:
>It seems to me that aligned access to all items larger than a bit would allow
>a bit addressable machine to be every bit as fast as a byte or word addressable
>machine.  Am I missing something?

Yes, the alignment network is always there whether an instruction uses it or
not.