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If you're programming 16-bit assembly language, it's even more important to keep in mind the advantages and restrictions of each register, because you can only
by csense 14y ago
If you're programming 16-bit assembly language, it's even more important to keep in mind the advantages and restrictions of each register, because you can only use BX, SI, DI, and BP for memory addressing.
Each register has its own personality and certain things it just does best. It is a little sad to see that RISC has "won" and modern CPU's have dozens or hundreds of registers which are just numbers.
- marssaxman 14y agoHow on earth is that sad? It's a great thing that we are finally leaving all that old cruft in the past!