8088 (cont.)
ä Use of registers
ä AX - accumulator, supports multiply,
divide, I/O, decimal arithmetic, translate
ä BX - general, translate, based addressing
mode
ä CX - general, string operations, loop
control counters
ä DX - general + multiply and divide,
indirect I/O
ä SP - stack operations
ä BP - base access
ä SI - string operations (source)
ä DI - string operations (destination)
ä Segment registers used for addressing