Re: How many x86 instructions?

From	BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.intel, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips, alt.windows7.general
Subject	Re: How many x86 instructions?
Date	2014-02-23 17:15 -0600
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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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Bill
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