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Welcome to the specter wiki!

Learn about:

• The assembling process
• The execution process
• The CLI
• The GUI
• Also see specter.py --help

Overview

The little man computer is a simulation of how a modern computer works. It is a very simple Von Neumann architecture, with the instructions and data stored together. The computer has:

• A way to get user input
• A way to give output
• Memory to store instructions and data
• Ways of processing the data by following the instructions

Stages in running a program

• When a program is loaded from a text file, the human-readable instructions are converted to machine-readable instructions by assembling them.
• The machine-code is then executed by repeating a fetch-interpret-execute cycle.