byte alignment

[andrew at hwcs.UUCP]

	>The IBM STRETCH (7030) ca 1957, was bit addressable.
	>The instruction contained a word address (64 bit word) ,
	>bit offset, and a "byte length", or operand size.
	>The machine was a masterpiece of baroque architecture.

Does my memory deceive me, or was this beastie so parallel and so unreliable
as a result that it was renamed "TWANG"?

		- andrew stewart (...!ukc!edcaad!hwcs!andrew)