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title: "Explain Why 8085 Processor Is Called An 8 Bit Processor?"  
description: "Explain Why 8085 Processor Is Called An 8 Bit Processor?"  
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published: 2022-05-06  
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# Explain Why 8085 Processor Is Called An 8 Bit Processor?

Explain Why 8085 [Processor Is Called](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/31598/why-8085-processor-is-called-8-bit-processor) An 8 [Bit](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/81645/what-are-confucius-institutes-decoding-every-bit) Processor?

## Answers

### Answer by Hitesh Vohra

- **8-bit** is a [**computer**](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/96654/is-ms-paint-a-good-computer-drawing-medium) information measurement that was commonly used to refer to hardware and software at an age when computers could only store and execute 8 bits per data block. This limitation was mostly caused by the CPU technology available at the time, which software had to adhere to. As a result, the images were blocky and the computation times were long.
- Because the ALU on the 8085 [processor](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/1639/processor-count-in-c-sharp) is 8 bits (Arithmetic Logic Review). The ALU on the 8086 processor is also 16 bits.

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