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From: eugene@pioneer.arpa (Eugene Miya N.)
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Subject: Re: *Why* do modern machines mostly have 8-bit bytes?
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>Even Seymour Cray has byte addressing in the Cray 2, doesn't he?

Byte addressing?  What's that?  Speaking from personal experience?