Originally Posted by
Elkvis
I am going to assume that this is a serious question. I can understand that if you worked on mainframes for a significant part of your career, the hardware differences of mainframes versus PCs, and the fuzzy line of what is and what is not contained in the processor in a discrete logic based machine, you actually might not know the answer to this question. Every processor in the line that started with the Intel 8086 has had its registers contained within the chip itself, as part of the CPU hardware. The registers are similar to RAM, but they operate at the clock speed of the processor.