

Operating Systems Concepts - Engineering
Q1: The instruction registerA
is a hardware memory device which denotes the location of the current instruction being executed.
B
is a group of electrical circuits (hardware), that performs the intent of instructions fetched from memory.
C
contains the address of the memory location that is to be read from or stored into.
D
contains a copy of the designated memory location specified by the MAR after a "read" or the new contents of the memory prior to a "write".
E
None of the above
ANS:B - is a group of electrical circuits (hardware), that performs the intent of instructions fetched from memory. Instruction register (IR) : is the part of a CPU's control unit that holds the instruction currently being executed by the CPU. |


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