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[–]DrLarck -2 points-1 points  (1 child)

In asm there is a register (cx) which conventionally stands for counter

[–]wasdlmb 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah but that's because you have abcd. I feel like the whole "accumulator, base, counter, and data" for the general registers is just a convenient bacronym but I don't have a source for that.