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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
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Subject: clearing registers
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Date: 21 Jun 91 03:12:33 GMT
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Is there any dedicated instruction in the 8088 instruction set that will
perform a clear on a register or memory location

ie (a la PDP 11)

CLR CX
CLR AH
CLR MEMORY_LOCATION

So far, all I've seen is XOR AH,AH; MOV CX, 0; and that's about it.

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