e processor has a number of new instructions and some enhancements with respect to the
instructions available for its predecessor. It has all the instructions that the 8086, ’186 and ’286
has, plus a few more. Here we will see the new instructions which can be used in the real mode.
e ’386 has an interesting enhancement with regard to what we have until now defi ned i)
as ‘pointer registers’ which carry addresses. Here all the general-purpose registers too can
hold addresses that can be used in the register indirect, register relative and based indexed
mode of addressing. For example, ...
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