Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site bambi.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!exodus!bambi!wayne From: wayne@bambi.UUCP (Wayne Wilner) Newsgroups: net.arch Subject: Re: Arbitrary byte alignment Message-ID: <48@bambi.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Oct-84 17:13:34 EDT Article-I.D.: bambi.48 Posted: Fri Oct 12 17:13:34 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Oct-84 08:00:29 EDT References:, <1433@bmcg.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Inc. Lines: 15 Thanks to Bill Price for explaining the B1700...B1900 bit-addressibility. The one feature that seems to always escape everyone's attention is that variable-length strings were addressed by a triple: starting address length direction not just the usual address-length pair. By having the "direction" parameter, one could fetch toward higher or toward lower addresses from the starting address. So add to Bill's description that if bank A were given address N, then bank B might be given N, N+1, or N-1. --mhuxl!thumper!wayne Wilner Bell Communications Research