Storing and retrieving...

How to keep track of data?



• Each must have a unique address…
• Addresses are also binary numbers/words
• Must also store and retrieve the addresses
• What about the addresses of the addresses?
• Some fixed storage registers needed to store addresses, current data being used, etc.

• All of this … addressing, storing and retrieving is done by the CPU

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