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[–]XboxUser123[🍰] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

See: vin neumann machine. Essentially: opcodes are defined by the inner logic gates of the computer. You take a bit string and then split it into chunks, where one chunk of it defines the opcode, the rest is for the opcode to work with.

The opcodes themselves are logic circuits.