Programming code tells the computer to do something, but what makes the code actually mean anything to the computer?

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Programming code tells the computer to do something, but what makes the code actually mean anything to the computer?

In: Engineering

Answer 1

I think what op is asking is how does a computer take binary machine code and know to run it. Is there code built into the processor that accepts the machine code as a “fuel”? What decides what code to run at what times (queue, priority etc)