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+So now, even though this simple game is far from sophisticated or even fully functional, it should illustrate the principle that are at play when a processor executes a program that resides in memory.   We explore this in the next section.
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+===Assembly Language: The Language of the Processor===
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+We are very close to understanding how the processor runs programs.   We have seen that computers work with electricity, and that information is coded as 0s and 1s.  We refer to an information cell that contains a 0 or a 1 as a ''bit''.    The memory is a collection of boxes that contain bits.   We refer to these boxes as ''words''.  ''Memory words''.