The address space of 8086 CPU is

2008

The address space of 8086 CPU is

  1. A.

    one Megabyte

  2. B.

    256 Kilobytes

  3. C.

    1 K Megabytes

  4. D.

    64 Kilobytes

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Correct answer: A

The Intel 8086 microprocessor features a 20-bit address bus. This allows it to access $2^{20}$ unique memory locations, resulting in a total address space of 1,048,576 bytes, which is equivalent to one Megabyte.

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