Set of instructions is called a PROGRAM.
And set of program is called a SOFTWARE.
There is one instruction set in the IA-32. Instruction set is the set of instruction that a processor can execute.
RISC - Reduced Instruction Set Computer CISC - Comples Instruction Set Computer
MMX - instruction set - was created in 1996.
instruction set architecture ISA for intel 8080
Planned x86 processors will have the SSE4 instruction set.
CISC: Complex Instruction Set ComputerRISC: Reduced Instruction Set Computer
Reduced Instruction Set Computer Complex Instruction Set Computer
CISC (complex instruction set computing)
It provides more instructions than RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer).
To add a new machine language instruction to an processor instruction set, you need to replace the microcode of the processor.
The instruction set is usually called IA-64. This is not to be confused with EM64T, a 64-bit instruction set used in mainstream desktop processors. The answer your looking for is (EPIC)Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing Chicagocubano strikes again
it has an instruction set of a few hundred instructions.