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The 'Von Neumann bottleneck' refers to

Athe slow speed of input devices
Bthe delay caused by virtual memory
Cthe limited number of registers in the CPU
Dthe limited bandwidth between the CPU and memory, since instructions and data share the same path

Correct answer: D

Explanation

In the stored-program architecture the single path to memory limits throughput for both instructions and data.

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