8086 Interview Question:

Why memory width is not 16-bit? In stead of having 8-bit (same as 8085)?

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memory size of 8086 is 1MB memory size of 8085 is 64KB 2 ^(adresslines)=size of memory (bytes) so adress lines of 8086 are 20 and 8085 is 16
Submitted by: Administrator