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The author forgot to mention that 8051 has a bit-addressable lower part of RAM.

PDP-11 had a weird RAM overlay scheme of squeezing 256KB RAM into a 64KB 16-bit address space.

IBM System/360 also had a weird addressing scheme with base register and up to 4KB offsets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360_architecture#Ad...




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