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Architectural state is the part of the
CPU
which holds the state of a process, this includes:
general purpose registers (as in AX,BX,CX... in a 80x86 processor).
Control Registers.
APIC Registers.
Machine State Registers.
This does not include actual computation units as in
ALU
dor instance.