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How do binary numbers interact with the CPU and cause some action to take place? [duplicate]
EDIT: Perhaps what I am misunderstanding is that when it is said that the code we type gets turned into machine code of 0s and 1s. If these 0s and 1s are the abstracted representation of their ...
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Is machine language always binary? [duplicate]
I know absolutely nothing in low-level stuff, so this will be a very newbie question. Please excuse my ignorance.
Is machine language - the series of numbers to that tell the physical computer ...
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Why can't native machine code be easily decompiled?
With bytecode-based virtual machine languages like Java, VB.NET, C#, ActionScript 3.0, etc., you hear sometimes about how easy it is to just go download some decompiler off the Internet, run the ...
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