The instructions have to remain in memory at all times while the program is running. They get there by loading the entire program into memory. The CPU's instruction registers keep track of the current instruction and the next instruction.
In computer terminology, "running a program" means copying a sequence of instructions from storage into main memory and initiating the execution or interpretation of those instructions.
That means to load a computer program into a computer's memory, and have the computer carry out the instructions in the program.
The CPU executes program instructions.
In general the only difference between commands, or instructions, and data is the context in which each appears. If the CPU is fetching the contents of memory to get the next instruction, then it assumes that the Program Counter register points to commands. If the CPU is executing an instruction that needs to fetch data from memory, the data at the address specified by the instruction are fetched, assuming that the address points to data. This is what allows a program to be loaded into memory in the first place; the part of the operation system responsible for this operation treats the program as data, loading it into memory as instructed in the file. Then the OS branches to a specified place within that memory and begins fetching instructions there. This blurring between instructions and data has also been used in the past to allow a program to modify itself as it executes. This is usually considered poor practice; some operating systems, such as HP's OpenVMS, even set up memory page protections to keep this from happening.
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Data and program instructions are stored in primary/electronic memory. Explain the concept of electronic memory ''the concept of electronic memory''
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main memory provides buffers.buffers are the places where program execution takes place.but the CPU is provided with registers(memory units) there CPU can accomodate instructions and the data on which theses instructions are to be operated.from the main memory CPU fetches the instructions one by one and the instruction is processed in the CPU and then sends back the result to the main memory......i think so.thank u
In computer terminology, "running a program" means copying a sequence of instructions from storage into main memory and initiating the execution or interpretation of those instructions.
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That means to load a computer program into a computer's memory, and have the computer carry out the instructions in the program.
The Manchester Baby was the first computer to run a program from memory, it ran its first program on June 21, 1948. The program was stored in a 32 word CRT based DRAM and consisted of 17 instructions; it ran for 52 minutes before reaching the correct answer of 131,072, after performing 3.5 million operations (for an effective CPU speed of 1.1 kIPS).The modified ENIAC was the second computer to run a program from memory, it ran its first program as a stored-program computer on September 16, 1948. The program was stored in the 100 word Function Table ROM switches as 2 digit instructions (allowing storage for up to 500 instructions).
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The CPU executes program instructions.