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Good point, I forgot for a second that the CPU turns assembler into microcode before executing it.
by fleitz 12y ago
Good point, I forgot for a second that the CPU turns assembler into microcode before executing it.
- dllthomas 12y agoThe CPU often turns machine code into microcode, true, and that's a good point but it wasn't the point I was trying to make. Even in simpler processors that actually do directly execute the machine code, I think you can view that machine code as an API for controlling the processor system.