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instructions or operations?: So what's an "instruction" and what's an "operation"?
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: a computer in which a single operation (dictated by a single opcode) can execute a load from memory, an operation on the loaded data, and a store of the result.
[[User:Encyclopedant|Encyclopedant]] ([[User talk:Encyclopedant|talk]]) 18:55, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
 
:Ok, what are your definitions of "operation", "[[opcode]]", and "[[instruction (computer science)|instruction]]" here? Is an "opcode" what is specified by the Wikipedia page:
 
::In computer science, an opcode (operation code) is the portion of a machine language instruction that specifies the operation to be performed.
 
:or is it something else? Is an "operation" something specified by an opcode, or is it a low-level operation? [[User:Guy Harris|Guy Harris]] ([[User talk:Guy Harris|talk]]) 00:25, 26 August 2011 (UTC)