<architecture> The collection of machine language instructions that a particular processor understands.
The term is almost synonymous with "instruction set architecture" since the instructions are fairly meaningless in isolation from the registers etc. that they manipulate.
(1999-07-05)
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Nearby terms: instruction mnemonic « instruction prefetch « instruction scheduling « instruction set » instruction set architecture » Instruction Set Processor » instrument
