Multiple choice technology

Which of the following is not an 8086/8088 general-purpose register?

  1. Code segment (CS)

  2. Data segment (DS)

  3. Stack segment (SS)

  4. Address segment (AS)
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D Correct answer
Explanation

The 8086/8088 processors have four segment registers: Code Segment (CS), Data Segment (DS), Stack Segment (SS), and Extra Segment (ES). There is no 'Address Segment' (AS) register - this is a fabricated option. Segment registers are used to address different memory regions in the segmented memory architecture of these processors.

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