What is the difference between Instruction Set and Instruction Set Architecture (ISA)?
问题 I am not able to understand the difference between Instruction set and Instruction set architecture. I know what is an instruction set . Instruction set just defines the possible instructions we can give to the processor and how the instruction are give ( therefore the instruction format ) to the processor. Now what is Instruction set architecture ? I have looked up wikipedia, it has a page on instruction set and inside it, on the first line there is a link to instruction set architecture