Features of 8086 Microprocessor As discussed in the previous chapters, the 8085 microprocessor is an 8-bit microprocessor. It was generally used in small-scale industrial applications to control few operations. The limitations of the 8085 microprocessor are as follows. (1) Low speed of execution. (ii) Low memory addressing capability. (ii) A limited number of general purpose registers. (iv) Less powerful instruction set. A 16-bit microprocessor 8086 was introduced by lntel in 1978. The 8086 microprocessor has many powerful and high-speed computational resources, The 8086 the microprocessor also has a much powerful instruction set along with the architectural developments. This provides a programming flexibility and improvement in speed. The 8086 microprocessor has 16-bit data bus. It can read data from or write data to me and V'O ports either 16-bit or 8-bits at a time. The 8086 microprocessor has 20-bit address bus. It can address any one of 20 (1.048,576) memory locations. E