Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture
Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture
5th Edition
ISBN: 9781284123036
Author: Linda Null
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
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Difference between stack architecture, accumulator architecture and general-purpose architecture:

Stack architectureAccumulator architectureGeneral-purpose architecture
stack is used to execute the instructions in stack architecture and the operands are present on the top of the stack.It is a register with one operand without which it becomes necessary to write result of each calculation to main memory.General-purpose architectures use sets of general purpose registers
A stack cannot be accessed randomly even if the stack-based machines have good code density and simple model for evaluation of expressions...

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