FIFTH GENERATION COMPUTER (1984 – ………) The development of the fifth generation of computer systems is characterized mainly by the acceptance of parallel processing. Until this time parallelism was limited to pipe lining and vector processing, or at most a few processors sharing jobs. The fifth generation was the introductions of machines with hundreds of [...]
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FOURTH GENERATION COMPUTER
Posted by shan on August 17th, 2010
FOURTH GENERATION COMPUTER (1972-1984) The fourth generation computer systems saw the use of large scale integration and very large scale integration the construction of computing elements. At this scale entire processors will fit in to a single chip, and for sample systems the entire Computer can fit on one chip. Gate delays dropped to about [...]
THIRD GENERATION COMPUTER
Posted by shan on August 17th, 2010
THIRD GENERATION COMPUTER (1963-1972) The third generation brought huge gains in computational over. Innovations in this era include the used of in integrated circuits, or ICs (semiconductor devices with several transistors built in to one physical component), semiconductors memory starting to be used instead of magnetic cores, microprogramming as a technique for efficiently designing complex [...]
SECOND GENERATION COMPUTER
Posted by shan on August 17th, 2010
SECOND GENERATION COMPUTER (1954-1962) The second generation saw several important developments at all levels of computer system design, from the technology used to build the basic circuits to the programming languages used to write scientific applications. By 1948, the invention greatly changed the computer’s development. The transistor replaced the large, cumbersome vacuum tube in televisions, [...]
FIRST GENERATION COMPUTER
Posted by shan on August 17th, 2010
FIRST GENERATION COMPUTER (1945-1953) With the onset of the second war, governments sought to develop computers to exploit their potential strategic importance. This increased funding for computer development projects hastened technical progress. By 1941 German engineer Konrad Zuse had developed a computer, the Z3, to design airplanes and missiles. First generation computers were characterized by [...]
