What is a program counter? What is its use?

Answer Posted / as talwar

Program counter is a sixteen bit register which holds the
address of the next instruction to b executed. Program
counter is required bec

1. It speeds up the execution of a task.
2. the detination address where answer is to be stored is
with reference to the current address in PC.

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