The importance of optional alignment

[Norman Diamond]

> What I was complaining about was that
> there was no feature for defeating it even on machines like the VAX where
> the hardware will support it easily.  It would be nice to read structures
> from other machines (like PDP-11's) sometime.
> -Ron

Not only that, the same feature is necessary on machines where the hardware
doesn't support it easily.  Maybe no one needs to read anything on a PDP-11
any more, but they probably want to read stuff on Z-8000 machines.

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