22 Feb
2006
22 Feb
'06
12:33 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
(why the 8086
never implemented a single instruction to compute a segment/offset from an
existing segment-offset+displacement is beyond me),
Because you could address by offsets? This:
mov ax,[si+bx+4]
...is perfectly valid.
You know this already, so I'm confused why you asked the question...?
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