Instruction set (nonfiction)

In a computer, the instruction set is the set of machine code instructions that comprises the computer's machine language.

Every processor or processor family has its own machine code instruction set. Instructions are patterns of bits that by physical design correspond to different commands to the machine. Thus, the instruction set is specific to a class of processors using (mostly) the same architecture.

Fiction cross-reference

• Crimes against mathematical constants
• Gnomon algorithm
• Mathematics

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Computer (nonfiction)
• Computer science (nonfiction)
• Machine code (nonfiction)

External links:

• Instruction set architecture @ Wikipedia