Quiz submission record for quiz3-1-2 at Tue Jul 6 10:23:35 2004: Your Answer for Question 1: The basic instructions cannot have the same bit patterns because there would be no way of distinguishing between them for the machine. If there is a pseudo instruction then it can have the same bit pattern as the basic instruction that it represents. Your Answer for Question 2: This is because while nearly every conditional branch is to a nearby location, there are occassional branches to farther away addresses than can be represented in the 160 bits of the conditional branch instruction. Your unique submission ID is quiz3-1-2-cs61c-ef-1089134615-3007.