mcripps@mtuxo.att.com (XMP12-M.CRIPPS) (08/31/88)
In article <386@snjsn1.SJ.ATE.SLB.COM>, greg@bilbo (Greg Wageman) writes: > With the 80x86, the segment registers are tied up in the fashion of > base registers, and are unavailable for general purpose use, reducing > the general-purpose register count available to the programmer. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 80x86 general-purpose registers? There are none! AX - accumulator BX - indexing CX - loop counting DX - high order accumulator & port register SI & DI - index BP - frame pointer SP - stack pointer CS, DS, ES, SS - segment regs and of course, the flags That's all folks. Any of these look general purpose to you? Mike Cripps mtuxo!mcripps