I don't think so. In the "normal" world, you can't address anything smaller than a byte, and you can only address in increments of a byte. A "word" is usually

I don't think so. In the "normal" world, you can't address anything smaller than a byte, and you can only address in increments of a byte. A "word" is usually the size of the integer registers in the CPU. So the 36-bit machine would have a word size of 36 bits, and either six-bit bytes or nine-bit bytes, depending on how it was configured. At least, if I understood all of this...