Question

A computer system was designed to have a good latest processor and I/O
devices, however the designer of the computer did not put any RAM in it.
The computer does have a hard disk of 1 tera-byte. Will this computer be
able to execute programs? Explain giving justification in support of your
answer.

Answer 1

No, because RAM is essentially the core of your computer. It can be considered just as important as your processor, or hard drive. With the right amount of RAM on your computer the performance of your PC and the ability to support various types of software is optimized.

The overall performance of your computer is determined by how well your CPU and RAM work together. The more RAM your CPU has access to, the easier its job becomes, which enables a faster computer. If you do not have a sufficient amount of RAM than your CPU has to work much, much harder to transfer data, which severally damages the computer’s performance.

Random access memory also helps your system support software. Every piece of software requires a minimum amount of space and memory to be able to run smoothly. If your computer does not have enough RAM to support all the software systems you are running, or trying to run, they move so slow that it might not be worth running that software system. Additionally, if there is not enough storage room, the software might not run at all.

RAM is such a key element to how your computer functions that if one storage location out of a million is damaged your entire system can potentially crash.

Answer 2

No, the computer "will not able" to "execute the program". When a computer system contains a good and latest "processor and I/O devices" and a "hard disk" of "1 terabyte" but with no RAM in it.

Then the computer will not able to execute though it has an I/O device as there is no RAM in it. Since, RAM is responsible for retrieving, executing, and storing the executed results in the computer.