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machine instructions

n. (machine instruction English)

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All Empire commands and machine instructions were routed through his systems, allowing him overall awareness of the invasion as well as indi-vidual control of his war units.

All Empire commands and machine instructions were routed through his systems, allowing him overall awareness of the invasion as well as individual control of his war units.

So what we need to do is set up a bootstrap: a set of machine instructions that can be sent on ahead as the first signal to read in the main program.