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by chickenimprint 144 days ago
IC?
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Integrated Circuits.
Integrated circuits don't "start with C". What does that even mean? C is just an interchangeable language the compiler frontend parses.

A microprocessor starts by executing the machine code at the reset vector. This machine code is generated by an assembler or a compiler backend. It has no idea what programming languages are.