The Accumulator (ACC) is a general-purpose register in a CPU that is commonly used to store the intermediate results of arithmetic and logic operations performed by the Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU). While modern architectures use multiple general-purpose registers for this role, the Accumulator was historically and conceptually the dedicated register for accumulating results from the ALU.
Which one of the following stores the results produced by arithmetic and logic unit of a computer ?
Asked in UPSC CISF AC EXE 2021 · Topic: Components of a Computer System (Central Processing Unit (CPU): Architecture, ALU, Control Unit, Registers)
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