What is the purpose of NOPs?

Related questions

1. Which Interrupt has the highest priority?
2. What is the difference between overflow and carry flag?
3. What is auxiliary carry flag in 8051?
4. What is carry in microprocessor?
5. How many bytes is a NOP?
6. What is carry in bit?
7. What is JL in assembly language?
8. What is ASM NOP?
9. What does load effective address do?
10. What is an effective address or offset?

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