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Old February 24th 14, 12:15 AM posted to comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,alt.windows7.general
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Default How many x86 instructions?

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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