The IA-32 processor can switch between 16 bit operation and 32 bit operation with the help of instruction prefix bit.

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• Two processors A and B have clock frequencies of 700 Mhz and 900 Mhz respectively. Suppose A can execute an instruction with an average of 3 steps and B can execute with an average of 5 steps. For the execution of the same instruction which processor is faster?
• Two processors A and B have clock frequencies of 700 Mhz and 900 Mhz respectively. Suppose A can execute an instruction with an average of 3 steps and B can execute with an average of 5 steps. For the execution of the same instruction which processor is faster.
• A processor performing fetch or decoding of different instruction during the execution of another instruction is called               
• In a 32 bit processor, the A0 bit of the address line is connected to            of the parallel port interface.
• The LINK instruction is always followed by                           instruction.
• The part of machine level instruction, which tells the central processor what has to be done, is
•                       instruction is used to check the bit of the condition flags.
• Does the Load instruction do the following operation/s?
• The division operation in IA-32 is a single operand instruction so it is assumed that                         
•                     signal enables the processor to wait for the memory operation to complete.