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by pvg 3873 days ago
You're given 8-32 global variables of fixed size to work with, called "registers".

Luxury!

I think this is better than the super terse one downthread. Just saying statuses are in a register (as a simplification) and mentioning the PC might be a way to make it shorter and reinforce the theme that instructions change the internal state of the cpu which is also kept in special 'registers'.

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You're right; this might be a better explanation if it somehow captured simple stack machines.