>1. There have been, still are, and may in the future be machines that
> don't address in terms of bytes. E.g. Univac 1100, CDC 3000/6000/7000,
> Crays. It's not just that these machines use words for addresses,
> but that the word size is not an exact multiple of a byte. 4 1/2
> bytes per word for Univac, 7 1/2 bytes per word for CDC and Cray.
Cray machines are 64-bit. That's 8 bytes per word.
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