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Episode 94: How Computers Work Part IV - Processor Architecture and Machine Code

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Instructions in the Instruction Register

Each possible operation in the instruction architecture will have its own unique, corresponding op you just specify one of these ocodes. The other components of the instruction register usually include addresses of the registers that the operation is going to need. Or perhaps those registers will be used will be the location where the result of the operation is placed. So that many different, theas many different uses that these registers can be are put to.

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