Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!uw-june!sloan From: sloan@june.cs.washington.edu (Kenneth Sloan) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: RT/PC Unaligned Accesses Message-ID: <7780@june.cs.washington.edu> Date: 4 Apr 89 19:18:04 GMT References: <4618@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <4628@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <28664@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1685@wpi.wpi.edu> Reply-To: sloan@uw-june.UUCP (Kenneth Sloan) Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle Lines: 9 Doesn't anyone remember the good old IBM 1130? [now THERE was a personal computer!] As I (dimly) recall, loads(stores) of 16-bit "words" proceeded by loading(storing) the high-order byte from(at) the specified address, and then loading(storing) from(at) the address ORed with 1. I found it a marvelous way to save on the storage of 0 & -1... -Ken Sloan