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What is the primary interface between a computer's hardware and software?
Machine instructions
What is the minimum requirement for an instruction set to be able to implement and perform any algorithm?
Being Turing Complete
What is the main purpose of a computer's general purpose registers?
To hold the temporary results of calculations
What is the maximum amount of memory that can be addressed using the MIPS instruction set?
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What is the name of the instruction set used in this class?
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What is the term for the combination of an instruction set and its supporting hardware?
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What is the purpose of the HI and LO registers in MIPS?
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What is the purpose of the $ra register in MIPS?
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What is the format of an arithmetic instruction in MIPS assembly?
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How is the memory address calculated in the Load Word (lw) instruction?
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What is the purpose of the 'bne' instruction in MIPS?
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What is the range of the offset value in the Load Word and Store Word instructions?
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