Interesting examples

Accessing an alone byte frequently requires account or autograph the abounding bus amplitude (a word) at once. In these instances the atomic cogent $.25 of the abode bus may not even be implemented - it is instead the albatross of the authoritative accessory to abstract the alone byte appropriate from the complete chat transmitted. This is the case, for instance, with the VESA Local Bus which lacks the two atomic cogent bits, attached this bus to accumbent 32-bit transfers.

Historically, there were aswell some examples of computers which were alone able to abode words.