ELI5. If a computer is made up of preprogrammed circuits, then how does it display anything on its screen, even if that particular thing hasn’t been preprogrammed in its circuits?
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The pre-programmed circuits are more indirect than that.
The basic display circuit takes some cell of memory and makes some pixel on the screen a color defined by the contents of the cell. Then there are other circuits that read and write those memory cells.
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