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Translating Human-Readable Programs to Machine Code (Machine Instructions)

• Machine instructions:
  • Extremely primitive:
  • Encoded as numbers:
    

    161 40000 45 100 127 11280
    

  • Tedious and error prone to look up numeric codes and enter them manually.
  • Each processor has its own set of machine instructions.

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