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8086 let you address the upper and lower halves of the 16-bit registers as well, so don't trick yourself into thinking there was just one register width availab
by coldacid 5y ago
8086 let you address the upper and lower halves of the 16-bit registers as well, so don't trick yourself into thinking there was just one register width available in the sense that everything could only be treated as 16-bit words.
- colejohnson66 5y agoMany 8 bit processors had the same “feature”. For example, the Z80’s 8 bit registers were internally just halves of a 16 bit register.