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From: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: 680x0 vs 80x86
Message-ID: <125@ryptyde.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jun 91 10:31:59 GMT
References: <92@ryptyde.UUCP> <1991Jun23.152230.17393@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> <112@ryptyde.UUCP> <1991Jun25.012010.3154@Sugar.NeoSoft.com>
Reply-To: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
Organization: Ryptyde Timesharing (ryptyde.cts.com)
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In article <1991Jun25.012010.3154@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> peter@Sugar.NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <112@ryptyde.UUCP> dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy) writes:
>> I was referring to the general-purpose address/data registers used in the 
>> 8086 line! You wouldn't call these general purpose?
>
>Oh, sure. Both of them.
>-- 
>Peter da Silva.   `-_-'   <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
>                   'U`    "Have you hugged your wolf today?"

I believe there are 8. All of which can be used as data registers, most
can be used as address registers, and 7 are implicit parameters to various
commands.