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by peterfirefly
6 hours ago
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Segment prefixes were rarely needed and you didn't need to spend any of the precious mod/rm bits on segment registers. The GPR count was limited to 8 partly because of the 3 bits allocated to specifying them and partly because of limited die space. Segment registers only added slightly to the latter cost. |
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