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Subject: Re: Architectures with strict alignment? 
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>                     (though the AMD29K could apparently generate
> dummy bus cycles to limit the number of bit transitions on any cycle
> to reduce the I/O load).

Are you sure it was the amd29k?  I don't recall anything like
that (and am too lazy to dig out its datasheets!).

It too requiredd strict alignment though you could fix up
unaligned accesses in a trap handler at some cost.