CHAPTER - 7
GENERATIONS OF COMPUTER
Exercise
- In computer terminology, generation is a change in hardware as well as software technology of computer.
- The first generation computer used vacuum tubes as the basic components for memory and circuitry for CPU.
- Second generation use the transistor as their basic components.
- The third generation of computer use Integrated circuit (ICs) in place of transistor.
- A single IC has many transistors resistor and capacitors along with the the associated circuitry.
- The fourth generation of computer used VLSI circuits.
- Fourth generation computer became very powerful, compact, reliable and affordable. As a result it gave rise to personal computer PC revolution.
- AI (Artificial intelligence) is an upcoming branch in computer science which interpret mean and methods of making computer think like human beings.