Glossary · Computer science
Instruction set architecture
The set of machine instructions a processor understands, such as x86, ARM or RISC-V.
In the game
You will meet instruction set architecture in 1 prompt of Icillion. Of the 36 answers they accept, only 27 reach The Deep or below.
Examples
Taken from “Name a processor instruction set architecture”, from the top of the iceberg:
- x86
- ARM
- x86 64
- RISC V
- MIPS
- PowerPC
- SPARC
- 6502
- Z80
Prompts that use it
See also
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