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OCR: Wet.dthatereppssents a machineEoenenstrudeionMacintosh Assembly Language Programming 4P age The 00089 processor understands 56 basic instructi tions which means the 00089 assembly language programmer has 56 mnemonics to remember. Compared to high level language, which may have as many as 800 different instructions, this is a small number to memorise In practise not all these instructions will be used, and you may find yourself using few as 20 instructions regularly so its not difficult to learn contrary to popular belief!) What does mnemonic look like? The 68000 has an instruction to two numbers together. In ones and noughts it looks like 1101 000000000000I which mouthful, SC we use the mnemonic Its as simple as that Other mnemonics include SUB (SUBtract) MUI (MULtiply Signed) DIVS (DIV /i ...