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The more academic usage refers to the design of a computer's underlying language - its "[[instruction set]]." This will include information such as whether the computer's processor can compute the product of two numbers without resorting to external memory. It will also include a nominal precision for the computer's computations.

The less formal usage refers to a description of the requirements (especially speeds and interconnection requirements) or design implimentation for the various parts of a computer. (Such as [[computer memory|memory]], [[motherboard]], [[electronic]] [[peripheral]]s, or most commonly the [[centralCentral processingProcessing unitUnit|CPU]].)