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Re:The Intel 8086 processor's registers: from chip to transi... by mjbrusso on Saturday July 18, 2020 @03:41PM (#23884192)
> The registers of the 8086 still exist in modern x86 computers, although the registers are now 64 bits.

But they are logical (architectural) registers and are mapped at run time to one of the physical registers.

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