Why might the term move be considered an incorrect name for the opera­tion of mo

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Why might the term move be considered an incorrect name for the opera­tion of moving data from one location in a machine to another? In the text, JUMP instructions were expressed by identifying the destina­tion explicitly by stating the name (or step number) of the destination within the JUMP instruction (for example, "Jump to Step 6"). A drawback of this technique is that if an instruction name (number) is later changed, we must be sure to find all jumps to that instruction and change that name also. Describe another way of expressing a JUMP instruction so that the name of the destination is not explicitly stated. Is the instruction "If 0 equals 0, then jump to Step 7" a conditional or unconditional jump? Explain your answer.

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Q1. Using the term such as move for this is incorrect, as the data isn't deleted from the original location. The data being transferred is rarely erased from its original location.
It is more like copyng, and not moving. Hence, we should not.

Q3. This is a conditional jump, as here we are given a conditin that when 0 will equal 0, only then it should jump to step 7. For unconditional jumps, the jump would be simply like
"Skip to Step 7"

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