The importance of the introduction of byte addressing

Byte addresses was the feature I think was the most important, on the 360 and the pdp 11.
The PDP 11 dropped short form addressing, and that gave it the power over other 16 bitters,
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Almost any other feature off hand could be seen on other machines.
Load effective address, while useful also needs to paired with Add effective address,for machines with out ([base][index]) addressing. This is my hack for a addressing mode.

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