And linear addresses and addressing has tons of advantages. Macroarchitecture obviously deal well with word-sized linear addresses and there's all sorts of nea

And linear addresses and addressing has tons of advantages. Macroarchitecture obviously deal well with word-sized linear addresses and there's all sorts of neat speed up tricks the microarchitecture can use when the word-size can address as much or more than the memory port interface, address lines, cache address lines, TLBs, etc.