NO ONE SEEMS TO BE more in need of instructions than the people who write instructions for computers and computer software. It is, of course, only an assumption that these are people. They could be ...

What is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC)? RISC (reduced instruction set computer) is a microprocessor that is designed to perform a smaller number of computer instruction types, so it can ...

This proposed instruction set is intended to run on both virtual and physical incarnations of the 4-Bit HRRG Computer As you may recall, my chum Chewy is interested in designing and building a 4-bit ...

If you are limiting yourself to only 16 instructions, which ones should you chose, and how do you manage without the ones that fall by the wayside? In my previous column on our project to build a ...

Pipelining is the process of a computer processor executing computer instructions as separate stages. The pipeline is a logical pipeline that lets the processor perform an instruction in multiple ...