One of the traditional ways of describing processor architecture is in terms of the number of addresses contained in each instruction.

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Processor architecture can indeed be traditionally described by the number of addresses in each instruction, which refers to how many operands in the instruction can directly specify addresses in memory. This classification leads to terms like zero-address (stack-based), one-address (accumulator-based), two-address, three-address, and so on, architectures.

One of the Traditional Ways of Describing Processor Architecture Is