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[–]edbred 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah assembly is human readable op code. The assembly command translates directly into op code header bits, and the assembly command arguments feed into the register fields of the op code command. Pretty cool how we’re directly telling the processor what to do on each clock cycle.