Another CPU Question.

[TP-Oreilly]

Hi,

What is the difference between a register in a CPU and a shift register, are they the same circuit in a cpu?

 

[TP-Oreilly]

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[TP-Oreilly]

Sorry, ignore my question let me ask a different one. What data do shift registers hold, is it numbers to have arithmetic and logical operations to hae carried out on them?