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The vocabulary of commands understood by a given architecture.

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Instruction set

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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

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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

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