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It depends on the computer system being used. Traditionally an executable program would be copied in its entirety from its storage media (disk, diskette, tape, SD card, USB device, network storage) into memory (also called RAM for Random Access Memory). If it already is in a high speed ROM (read only memory) it might be executed directly from there or it might still be copied into RAM for execution. It depends on the capabilities of the rest of the hardware.

Systems with a swapping area might copy the program to the swap area and flag it for execution. When its turn comes, part of it are loaded into memory as needed and run.

Other systems don't even do that. They can just flag the program location on the disk drive as ready run. When its turn arrives, the needed parts of the program are copied to memory and run.

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