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What is program stored?

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Anonymous

16y ago
Updated: 11/14/2022

'Stored program' was the breakthrough that enabled computers to perform complex tasks in fractions of a second. Being able to do arithmetic and evaluate formulas fast would be useless if a person had to keep telling the computer what to do next. The trick was encoding the list of instructions into numbers that could coexist in the computer's memory along with data, and having a 'processor' built into the machine to decode and execute the instructions. Now the computer could do both, calculate and control the sequence of calculations, at electronic speed.

Many credit John von Neumann with devising the stored program concept, but probably several others were also involved.

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Geoffrey Huels

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2y ago

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