
ADVANCED PROCESSORS—80286 TO PENTIUM 14-51
l Its instruction and data caches are separate.
l It can have a page size of 2 MB/4 MB.
QUESTIONS
1. What were the major changes incorporated in the 80286 compared to the 8086?
2. What was the major complaint against the 80286?
3. Name the major change that made the 80386 a big leap in processor technology.
4. What is the ‘scaled indexed ‘mode of addressing?
5. Where can the MOVSX and MOVZX instructions be used?
6. Why is it that the ’386 has address lines only from A2 to A31?
7. Does the 80386 have an inbuilt floating point processor?
8. What is the importance of the virtual memory concept for a user? ...