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The 29 pages that link to Machine code, each with the reason it gives.

• CompilerRelated: Native compilers commonly translate source programs into the instruction set of a target processor.

• Instruction set architectureRelated: An ISA specifies how instruction bit patterns are interpreted.

• Stored-program computerRelated: Stored programs ultimately consist of machine-code instructions.

• MicrocontrollerRelated: A microcontroller ultimately runs firmware as machine-code instructions.

• Grace HopperRelated: A-0 translated higher-level input into the machine instructions UNIVAC I could run.

• Altair 8800Related: The Altair’s switches made machine-code entry unusually visible and hands-on.

• Von Neumann architectureRelated: In a stored-program design, machine code resides in memory alongside data.

• Digital computerRelated: Machine code turns abstract operations into instructions the processor can execute.

• HexadecimalRelated: Disassemblers often show instruction bytes in hexadecimal.

• ExecutableRelated: Machine code is the executable's processor-specific instruction content.

• J. Presper EckertRelated: Eckert’s computers made the hardware organization of instructions a central design concern.

• Kathleen AntonelliRelated: ENIAC’s settings and connections embodied instructions without a modern stored program.

• Betty HolbertonRelated: Early computers required programs to be expressed in forms closely tied to their hardware.

• MicrocomputerRelated: It is the executable form of the programs handled by the microcomputer’s processor.