Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!easy!lron From: lron@easy.lrcd.com (Dwight Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: 680x0 vs 80x86 Message-ID: Date: 27 Jun 91 10:25:49 GMT References: <92@ryptyde.UUCP> <1991Jun23.152230.17393@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> <112@ryptyde.UUCP> <1991Jun25.012010.3154@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> <125@ryptyde.UUCP> Organization: You must be talking about someone else. Lines: 23 In article <125@ryptyde.UUCP> dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy) writes: >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. `-_-' . >> '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. Intel may call them General purpos registers, but they certainly don't look all that General purpose to me. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -Dwight Hubbard INTERNET: lron@easy.lrcd.com - -Kaneohe, Hawaii USENET : ...!uunet!easy!lron - - BIX : lron - ----------------------------------------------------------------------