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How did 8086 pass its control to 8087?(a) BUSY instruction(b) ESCAPE instruction(c) CONTROL instruction(d) fetch 8087The question was posed to me in examination.This interesting question is from The Berkeley RISC Model and Digital Signal Processing in division Embedded Processors of Embedded Systems

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The correct option is (B) ESCAPE instruction

Easiest explanation: When 8086 COMES ACROSS any floating point arithmetic operations, it EXECUTES ESCAPE instruction code in ORDER to pass the control of bus and instruction op-code to 8087.



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