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id: 2v5c
title: Assembly
tags: [CPU]
created: Tuesday, March 12, 2024
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# Assembly

## Summary

- Machine code is hard for humans to parse, even in
  [[Hexadecimal_number_system|hexadecimal]]

- Assembly is one level up from machine code and provides a more human-friendly
  abstraction layer

- An assembly instruction is a _mneumonic_ that comprises an "op code" plus
  operands

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