| 1. | At first, the Mark I had no conditional branch instruction.
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| 2. | The opcode used indicated the history of that particular branch instruction.
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| 3. | Static branch prediction is employed to minimize the cost of branch instructions.
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| 4. | Conditional branch instructions test the various flag status bits.
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| 5. | Therefore, the next instruction executed is the instruction after the branch instruction.
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| 6. | Machine level branch instructions are sometimes called " jump " instructions.
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| 7. | These instructions are branch instructions and certain system instructions.
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| 8. | The instruction set does not contain conditional branch instructions.
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| 9. | The crux of the algorithm comes in how it handles the interpretation of branch instructions.
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| 10. | Only the branch instructions using absolute addressing used all 15 bits of the address field as address.
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