which holds the next instruction to be carried out?

Which of the following is a program counter that points to the memory location which holds the next instruction to be carried out?

Which of the following is a program counter that points to the memory location which holds the next instruction to be carried out?

A.
Dedicated register

B.
Status register

C.
TOC/TOU

D.
Privileged program

Explanation:
The CPU is made up of two parts: ALU and registers. There are two types
of registers: dedicated and status. Dedicated registers are program counters that
point to memory locations which hold the next instructions. Status registers hold
state information.



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Zhen

Zhen

Dedicate registers are NOT program counters. Dedicate registers hold information such as program counter, stack pointer and PSW.

–All in one 6th edition page 306