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From: jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman)
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Subject: Re: architectural goals, Byte Addressability And Beyond
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2024 09:20 +0100 (BST)
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In article <2024Jun3.074750@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>,
anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) wrote:

> SPARCs are big-endian and trap on unaligned access (at least that 
> was the case when I last used one long ago), while S/370 ff. does 
> not trap on unaligned access.  

OK, that shoots down S/370 for this job. 

John