I think the 8086 has 117 instructions. It is a good example of a CISC, after all, with instructions like the one capable of copying a C string: REPNZ MOVSB. Wh

I think the 8086 has 117 instructions. It is a good example of a CISC, after all, with instructions like the one capable of copying a C string: REPNZ MOVSB. While I have seen many claims that the 8086 has more than 20 thousand instructions that is very silly. By the same criteria any RISC with fixed 32 bit instructions would have 4 billion of them.