Execution by the Processor

The final step in the software life cycle is execution. This is the point when your instructions, translated to 0’s and 1’s, are fed into the computer’s processor (more on the processor in Chapter 3). The processor, which knows just what to do with all those, and exectues your instructions. Your program runs!

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