Episode 94: How Computers Work Part IV - Processor Architecture and Machine Code
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The Concept Behind a Stored Program Computer
A stored program computer is one that keeps its program instructions and its data also in the same read right random acces memory, or ram. The key concept behind a store program computer is that some instruction will be fetched from the memory to the central processing unit where it is decoded by the control unit. And with the registers, the results are then stored in a back in primary memory. So this entire instruction cycle is known as the fetch, decode, execute, store cycle because that's the order of the operations.
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