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An eight bit microprocessor made by Intel in 1976.

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does 8085 CPU have an extra register within ALU?

To answer the question, the 8085 has two extra registers in the ALU. The 8085 has several "hidden" registers: a 16-bit WZ pair and two 8-bit ALU helper registers: ACT and TMP. … Details on the 8085 register set are here and details of the ALU are here. …
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Does an ALU always do add and sub, but only returns one of the results?

The 8085's ALU does only the operation you ask for, using a somewhat inscrutable collection of gates. … For more than you wanted to know about the 8085 ALU, see my article. Here's a diagram showing one bit of the 8085's ALU circuitry. …
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