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Why are program counter and stack pointer 16-bit registers?

Answer Posted / riya roy palamattam

becoz 8085 microprocessors are 16 bit of address.and pc and sp adressIf the program counter and stack pointer were only 8-bits wide, the processor would be able to address only 256 address locations.

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