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drmpeg
on July 19, 2020
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The Intel 8086 processor's registers: from chip to...
A byte addressable index register was required for 8080 assembly language compatibility to the H and L registers.
EvanAnderson
on July 19, 2020
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By "genesis of this behavior" I meant the implementation, not the reason (spec) for the behavior.
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