a) How many adress lines does an 8086 have ? b) How many memory addresses does t

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a) How many adress lines does an 8086 have ? b) How many memory addresses does this number of address linesallow the 8086 to access directly ? c) At any given time, the 8086 works with four segment in thisaddress space. How many bytes are contained in each segment ? a) How many adress lines does an 8086 have ? b) How many memory addresses does this number of address linesallow the 8086 to access directly ? c) At any given time, the 8086 works with four segment in thisaddress space. How many bytes are contained in each segment ?

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a)8086 has 20 address lines b)these address lines allow the 8086 to access220=1,048,576 ie 1 Mb of physical address space c)each segment in 8086 consists of 16 bits ...ie 2 bytes...since 1byte=8 bits

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