No, I'm not interested in technical discussion. A free service rounding up the week's news, articles, tips and reviews. Internet News Internet Investing Internet Technology Windows Internet Tech. To be honest, not a whole lot. It s really little more than an extremely fast calculator.
Processors are capable of only simple arithmetic, and simple logical decisions.
For example, take the value of a , and add it to the value of b , or determine if a is greater than b . Further, once the instructions and data have been located, interpreted, and executed, the result must then be stored in memory for later use. And so we have a very simplified model of what must be done in order for a processor to complete an instruction. We ll restate it, for clarity s sake. Interpret or translate the instruction from the software, commonly called Decoding the instruction.