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From: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: 680x0 vs 80x86
Message-ID: <112@ryptyde.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jun 91 10:32:43 GMT
References: <92@ryptyde.UUCP> <1991Jun23.152230.17393@Sugar.NeoSoft.com>
Reply-To: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
Organization: Ryptyde Timesharing (ryptyde.cts.com)
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Responding to the following:

"You gotta be kidding... *every* register on the 80x86 just about is special
purpose. There are like a couple of GP accumulators, and the rest are string
pointers, segment pointers, stack pointers, and the like."

I was referring to the general-purpose address/data registers used in the 
8086 line! You wouldn't call these general purpose?