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OCR: COMPUTERS AND DIGITAL BASICS SECTION Digital Processing COMPUTERS AND OTHER DIGITAL DEVICES process data, but how op they know what to op with it? The instructions you issue aren't 0s and 1s that digital device can work with. So what goes on inside the box? Section D explains the programs that make digital devices tick. You'll discover that although digital devices appear to perform very com- plex tasks. under the hood they are really performing some very simple operations, but doing them at lightning speed PROGRAMS AND INSTRUCTION SETS How do digital devices process data? Computers, portable media players PDAs and smart phones all work with digital data That data is manipulated under the control of a computer program, or software But how op digital circuits know what those program instruc ...