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kw> there is something very basic to computers... they execute code
kw> and they manipulate data in responce to the execution of the
kw> code... reading something in and of itself only loads data into
kw> memory, it does not execute anything except the code that did
kw> the loading (and that code has to already be in memory)...
DD> So you're saying that a computer can't execute commands
DD> without loading it into memory first?
That has been the case ever since Von Neumann developed the concept
of the "stored program" - and that was in the 1930's. :-)
TTFN. Rick.
Ottawa, ON 2 Jan 23:09
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