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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What describes the requirement that a program be described as a sequence of instructions?
A
von Neumann bottleneck
B
Linus Torvalds bottleneck
C
Bjarne Stroustrup bottleneck
D
Alan Turing bottleneck
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The von Neumann bottleneck is a limitation on throughput caused by the standard personal computer architecture. The term is named for John von Neumann, who developed the theory behind the architecture of modern computers. Earlier computers were fed programs and data for processing while they were running.

Detailed explanation-2: -The “classical” von Neumann architecture consists of main memory, a central-processing unit (CPU) or processor or core, and an interconnection between the memory and the CPU. Main memory consists of a collection of locations, each of which is capable of storing both instructions and data.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Von Neumann model is the architecture used in most modern computers-in a Von Neumann computer the main memory is used to store both data and instructions separately from the processor, and instructions are fetched, one at a time, from RAM to the processor, where they are translated and then executed.

Detailed explanation-4: -The idea was introduced in the late 1940s by John von Neumann, who proposed that a program be electronically stored in binary-number format in a memory device so that instructions could be modified by the computer as determined by intermediate computational results.

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