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Fourth, the store instructions STD and STS write to memory as part of their execute phase. They do not have an operand fetch phase, because their operand is really an address of where to store the value of the A register.

Fifth, the NOP instruction does nothing other than add 1 to PC. This is useful to machine language programmers who might need to add instructions in the middle of a section of code later.