Re: Cost of handling misaligned access

In article <vnrrmg$2adb$1@gal.iecc.com>, johnl@taugh.com (John Levine)
wrote:

According to MitchAlsup1 <mitchalsup@aol.com>:

while Intel 432 taught us why we did not bit
aligned decoders (and a lot of other things).

It was certainly an interesting experiment in yet another way that
Intel wanted programmers to use their computers and the programmers
said, naah.

It didn't get that far. There were no low-cost i432 systems, so the
ingenious software developers of the early 1980s carried on using more
conventional microprocessors.

The DoD wanted ADA, but the new software companies of the period weren't
especially interested in selling to them. Making money in the civilian
business software and games markets was far easier and more fun.

John