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human
Could a future civilization reverse-engineer electronic computers from a bunch of binary program instructions?

Hey all, this is really vague, I know. It didn't seem quite right for AskArchaeology, so I hope here is okay.

Basically my question is the title. If some future archeologists with no knowledge of electronic computers found printouts of the binary instructions of a number of programs, is there enough information there for them to deduce the purpose of the instructions, and how we ran them?
gpt
If they only found printouts of machine code, and knowledge of electronic computers hadn't survived to their day, then it's just meaningless gibberish to them.  If there was a processor databook accompanying it, then maybe they'd have a chance of understanding it.