The complete set of all the instructions in machine code that can be recognized and executed by a central processing unit.
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- The Itanium processor uses a different instruction set than the x86 instruction set used by other desktop and server processors from Intel and AMD.
- Each processor designer then designs a processor to process a specific instruction set in the most efficient way possible.
- These processors extend the x86 instruction set into the 64-bit realm, butting heads with Itanium.
- A Script is an instruction set used to execute operations on a controller device.
- Any Java program can be modeled without thought to how the JVM has been implemented; to the programmer, the JVM instruction set is consistently the same.