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Byte addressing in hardware architectures supports accessing individual bytes. Computers with byte addressing are sometimes called byte machines, in contrast to word-addressable architectures, word machines, that access data by word.[1][2]
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Byteaddressing in hardware architectures supports accessing individual bytes. Computers with byteaddressing are sometimes called byte machines, in contrast...
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architectures. Byte-addressing is enabled and words are stored in memory with little-endian byte order. Memory access to unaligned addresses is allowed for...
zero page and non-zero page addresses; this is called zero-page addressing in 6502 terminology (it is called direct addressing in Motorola 6800 terminology;...
the address is typically 32 or 64 bits. Most hard disk drives released after 1996 implement logical block addressing. In logical block addressing, only...
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