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2. Segment Registers

  • Segment registers are basically memory pointers located inside the CPU.

  • Segment registers point to a place in memory where one of the following things begin:

    1. Data storage

    2. Code execution.

     

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  • Example: code segment register CS points to a 64K region of memory:

      code segment register

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