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An instruction set is a list of all the instructions, and all their variations, that a processor (or in the case of a virtual machine, an interpreter) can execute.
Instructions include:
- Arithmetic such as add and subtract
- Logic instructions such as and, or, and not
- Data instructions such as move, input, output, load, and store
- Control flow instructions such as goto, if ... goto, call, and return.
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