Different types of instructions responsible for data transfer instructions. - 8086

Mention the different types of instructions responsible for data transfer instructions.



The following are the different types of instructions:

- Move byte or word instructions: they are used to perform primarily the move function on words / bytes

- Exchange byte or word instructions: as their name suggests they are used to perform exchange operations

- Translate byte instructions: used for transfer purposes.

- Load effective address instructions: used to calculate the effective address and load it to memory.

- Load data segment instructions: used for loading purposes.

- Load extra segment instructions: used for special instructions such as span etc.
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