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What are the von-neumann architecture?

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von Neumann - any computer architecture that stores both instructions and data in the same memory system.
Harvard - any computer architecture that stores instructions in one memory system and data in a different memory system.

Most modern computers are a bit of both, with separate instruction and data cache memory systems the CPU itself runs as a Harvard architecture, while both cache memory systems access a large common memory that stores both instructions and data the machine looks to the programmer as a von Neumann architecture.

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