Most of the machines have a 2-way capability; that is, you can copy them from another register, and you can copy them to another register. When compared to the other registers, the Memory Address Register (MAR) is always utilized as a destination register; you can only copy into the MAR. Please explain why this is the case.

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Most of the machines have a 2-way capability; that is, you can copy them from another register, and you can copy them to another register. When compared to the other registers, the Memory Address Register (MAR) is always utilized as a destination register; you can only copy into the MAR. Please explain why this is the case.

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