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- Bytes can also be used to
- represent instructions. You could
- invent a code in which each of the
- 256 possible combinations of bits
- is a different instruction to the
- computer. For instance, if 34 means
- put a red dot in the middle of the
- screen, and if 176 means move that
- dot to the left... You get the idea,
- that's programming. Of course there
- are more than 256 things you could
- have the computer do, so
- combinations of many bytes, each
- representing a simple instruction,
- can be used to build a complex
- instruction.
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- Programmers don't actually have
- to remember the numbers assigned to
- bytes, because their programming
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- languages themselves are programs
- that assign English-like words to
- the instructions contained in the
- bytes. Here is a sample from a
- programmer's scrap pile, this
- example is actually from the
- program that is running in the
- background right now - What's In
- That Box:
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- begin
- cleardevice;
- assign(outfile,'help');
- readfile;
- u := readkey;
- menu;
- end; {procedure help}
- ~
-
- rectangle/348/90/615/159
- text/339/162
- (This pops up the help screen.)
- ~