2 Flashcards
1
Q
The vocabulary of commands understood by a given architecture.
A
Instruction set
2
Q
The idea that instructions and data of many types can be stored in memory as numbers, leading to the stored-program computer.
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Stored-program concept
3
Q
The natural unit of access in a computer, usually a group of 32 bits; corresponds to the size of a register in the MIPS architecture.
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Word