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Instructions: Language of the Computer

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor(1500–1558)

Outline

2.1 Introduction 68
2.2 Operations of the Computer Hardware 69
2.3 Operands of the Computer Hardware 72
2.4 Signed and Unsigned Numbers 79
2.5 Representing Instructions in the Computer 86
2.6 Logical Operations 93
2.7 Instructions for Making Decisions 96
2.8 Supporting Procedures in Computer Hardware 102
2.9 Communicating with People 112
2.10 MIPS Addressing for 32-Bit Immediates and Addresses 118
2.11 Parallelism and Instructions: Synchronization 127
2.12 Translating and Starting a Program 129
2.13 A C Sort Example to Put It All Together 138
2.14 Arrays versus Pointers 147

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