Question

difference between data and instruction ?




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Answer 1

Data is either stored in Registers or Memory. Harvard Architecture has separate Instructions Memory andData Memory and instruction is only fetched from instruction memory. In Von Neumann architecture, all theInstructions and Data is stored in asingle memory. Memory store different segments in its address space.

Answer 2

DATA : the quantities, characters, or symbols on which operations are performed by a computer, which may be stored and transmitted in the form of electrical signals and recorded on magnetic, optical, or mechanical recording media is called data.


INSTRUCTION : the detailed information about how something should be done or operated is called instruction.