#114 What is an Instruction Set Architecture?
Kopec Explains Software
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What Is an Instruction Set Architecture?
One instruction set architecture will have machine code that's particular to it and that machine code will not work on another. For example if you have a program that's compiled for your phone that uses an ARM microprocessor you can't then take that program and run it on your PC that has an x86 microprocessor. Even if they were running the same operating system at all the same libraries use the same binary format. The machine code is fundamentally what the microprocessor understands.
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