On 2/23/2014 4:41 PM, charlie wrote:
The front panel on many of the old mainframes and minicomputers allowed
direct entry of machine code, and was usually used to manually enter
such things as a "bootstrap", or loader program.

The way I recall is any computer only understands machine code and
nothing else. Anything else must be converted to machine at some point.

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