Work through the machine model behind AArch64 assembly: where code and data live, which instructions are allowed to touch memory, what the system bus carries, and the registers that track execution.
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Which of the following describes a key characteristic of a von Neumann architecture compared to a Harvard architecture?
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How do load/store machines differ from accumulator machines when accessing RAM?
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What is a defining trait of machine instruction sizes in a RISC architecture?
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What does the program counter hold while an instruction executes?
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What is the purpose of pseudo-ops (assembler directives) in an assembly program?
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What are the three sub-components of the system bus?
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Where does an accumulator machine put every ALU result?
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Which register holds the flags describing the result of a previous instruction, such as an overflow?