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Lesson 15 of 37 · Building a Computer

How Do CPUs Read Machine Code?

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Ben Eater on real hardware, with an oscilloscope, watching a 6502 fetch instructions one clock cycle at a time. Nothing else makes the machine feel this physical.

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