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I don't recall memory protection on Stretch, and it was S/360 that
restricted byte handling to aligned 8-bit bytes; Stretch could handle
variable byte sizes, at least up to a word (64 bits.)
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IIRC, Stretch was an OCTAL machine, with 72-bit words. Or am I confusing
it with another machine?
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