Multiple choice

Which of these includes a specification of the native commands implemented by a particular processor?

  1. High-level language

  2. Microcode

  3. Interrupt

  4. Computer organization

  5. Instruction set architecture
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Explanation

An instruction set, or instruction set architecture (ISA), is the part of the computer architecture related to programming, including the native data types, instructions, registers, addressing modes, memory architecture, interrupt and exception handling, and external I/O. An ISA includes a specification of the set of opcodes (machine language), and the native commands implemented by a particular processor.

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