Ah, yes, the PDP-11 "bus error", SIGBUS. I remember hitting one of those in the early '80s and having to look up what it meant. So, yeah, in my personal exper

Ah, yes, the PDP-11 "bus error", SIGBUS. I remember hitting one of those in the early '80s and having to look up what it meant. So, yeah, in my personal experience over the years the architectures without hard alignment restrictions were less common. I suppose lacking them except for speed didn't hurt adoption of the Intel x86 family.