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Submitted by Chris Oliver on Sat, 12/27/2008 - 14:54. Computers that were able to deal just with numbers evolved into computers with byte-addressable memory, flat address spaces, and pointers. This was a natural evolution reflecting the growing set of problems that people were solving.