program counter in English
egister that stores the number of the next command to be performed
Use "program counter" in a sentence
1. An additional bit position is added to the program counter register.
2. Corrected some minor bugs in the MACRO treatment, finally added support for the historic program counter PC.
3. The Baby had included two registers, implemented as Williams tubes: the accumulator (A) and the program counter (C).
4. If a jump instruction was executed, the program counter will be modified to contain the address of the instruction that was jumped to and program execution continues normally.
5. The instruction's location (address) in program memory is determined by a program counter (PC), which stores a number that identifies the address of the next instruction to be fetched.
6. Three digits of one accumulator (#6) were used as the program counter, another accumulator (#15) was used as the main accumulator, a third accumulator (#8) was used as the address pointer for reading data from the function tables, and most of the other accumulators (1–5, 7, 9–14, 17–19) were used for data memory.