Why are program counter and stack pointer 16-bit registers?
Answer Posted / riya roy palamattam
becoz 8085 microprocessors are 16 bit of address.and pc and sp adressIf the program counter and stack pointer were only 8-bits wide, the processor would be able to address only 256 address locations.
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