Memory is a critical part of computing systems. In the organization of computers and the programming model, memory was first separated logically from the computing (CPU) part, and then later physically. This separation of CPU and memory in a structure known as the von Neumann architecture was covered in Chapter 2 and is illustrated in Figure 5.1.
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