Stored Program Concept

Question 1

How is it possible to execute programs without the stored program concept?

Answer 1

Input the program in as it is run (i.e. punch cards)

Question 2

What are the three steps of the stored program concept?

Answer 2

1) Machine code instructions stored in memory
2) Each instruction is fetched, decoded and executed in order by the processor
3) The processor performs operations on the data such as arithmetic or logical operations.