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What did the stored-program computer concept of 1949 allow?

Programs and data stored the same way in memory.

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Why: With the stored-program concept, both programs and data were stored and manipulated the same way in memory.

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Stored programs keep their instructions in memory.
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Answer: Programs and data stored the same way in memory. With the stored-program concept, both programs and data were stored and manipulated the same way in memory.

  1. Computer programming en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_programming
    with the concept of the stored-program computer introduced in 1949, both programs and data were stored and manipulated in the same way in computer memory
    Checked 2026-11-07.

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