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> I believe mov ah,al is one byte for the mnemonic and two bytes for the registers for a total of 3 bytes.

Two bytes in the 8086 mode:

     88C4   mov ah,al
And inside, ah and al are encoded with the 3 bits each, spending just 6 bits for "from which register to which register."



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