How many registers are used in Intel 8086 Microprocessor? Write their names and explain their functionality in details also compare these registers with Intel 80386 Microprocessor registers.
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The registers inside the 8086 are all 16 bits. They are split up into four categories: General Purpose, Index, Status & Control, and Segment. The four general purpose registers are the AX, BX, CX, and DX registers. AX - accumulator, and preferred for most operations.
The 8086 has eight more or less general 16-bit registers (including the stack pointer but excluding the instruction pointer, flag register and segment registers). Four of them, AX, BX, CX, DX, can also be accessed as twice as many 8-bit registers (see figure) while the other four, SI, DI, BP, SP, are 16-bit only.
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