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Questions about the organization and design of computer hardware.

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How is a program executed at the CPU level?

Your CPU in itself is dumb, as you figured out. But there is a microcosm of hardware chips around it. You have an instruction that lets you set one line of the CPU to high-level which is wired to anot …
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