-=> Quoting Paul Edwards to David Nugent <=-

 Hello Paul,

DN> On some platforms (not intel), the option of accessing data at
DN> other than alignment boundaries of a size determined by the
DN> machine is not available.

 PE> Could you tell me the name of one such machine?  On IBM S/370
 PE> machines it just makes it slower, so I don't have any real life
 PE> examples of it being not allowed at all, although I don't doubt
 PE> that there are.

All data must be aligned on the Motorola 68000, but the 68020 &
above are more forgiving.

Michael Stapleton of Graphic Bits.

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