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1. How many of them were making car payments on a Jaguar?
   - Many of them.
2. How many of them knew assembly language?
   - Few of them.

Employment is still strong for computer scientists. It is weak for technical workers. The used car lots of Silicon Valley are full of repossessed Jaguars (according to a recent news story).

# Basic Machine Cycle

Most processors endlessly repeat three basic steps. Each machine cycle results in the execution of one machine instruction. A modern processor performs millions of machine cycles per second.

A machine instruction is a pattern of bits that corresponds to a fundamental operation of the processor such as adding two 32-bit integers together or testing if a value is zero. The details of the machine cycle differ between processor families. The machine cycle of most processor chips looks like the following:

> Fetch the Instruction. The instruction is fetched from memory. The program counter (PC) is part of the processor. It shows where the instruction is located in memory.

> Increment the Program Counter. The program counter now points to the next instruction.

> Execute the Instruction. The operation asked for by the current machine instruction are performed.

### QUESTION 4:

In what order are machine instructions executed by the basic machine cycle?