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Registers
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Explains each and every register from their short assigned name.
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Hasnat Mohammed
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Registers
MAR
Holds the memory location of the data that needs to be accessed.
It can hold either a data address or an instruction address.
ACC
This is where arithmetic and logic calculations are stored.
MDR
Holds contents of the memory which is to be transferred.
CU
Tells the computer how to respond to the program's instruction.
CIR
Holds the current instruction to be executed, having being fetched from the memory.
ALU
Used to perform arithmetic and logic operations.
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