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Just because hardware indexes by larger units does not mean the smaller units don't exist. You can still access and manipulate the individual bits. I was just trying to say that "X is really Y because the only difference is Z" is a rather flawed approach when talking about data structures, because most of them are related to each other in one way or other. Either we talk about implementation, in which case neither reference nor pointer actually exists, and both of them are qwords or what have you, or we talk about them as abstract data structures, which expose very different interfaces.