title: Why are memory addresses incremented by 4 in MIPS?
body: <p>If something is stored at 0x1001 0000 the next thing is stored at 0x1001 0004. And if I'm correct the memory pieces in a 32-bit architecture are 32 bits each. So would 0x1001 0002 point to the second half of the 32 bits?</p>