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The Convoluted Way Intel’s 386 Implemented Its Registers (hackaday.com)
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[–] paulh@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month ago

Fantastic description!

Z-80 was much the same: djnz uses C as the loop counter (like the 8086 LOOP used CX iirc), H and L combine to make a 16-bit pointer...