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Assuming a von Neumann or modified Harvard architecture where execution advances from an incremented program counter, I'd say derived from, though it may be that the former is more appropriate. It is certainly not universal, I do not make that claim.

>>vezzy-+(OP)
The program counter doesn't typically appear in the programming languages that have (or don't have) goto. You're talking about implementation, but I think people typically criticize goto in terms of semantics (iirc, I can include Djikstra in that camp, but I never made a super-careful study of that paper).