GENERATIONS OF COMPUTER

GENERATIONS OF COMPUTER

The history of computer development is often referred to in reference to the different generations of computing devices. A generation refers to the state of improvement in the product development process. This term is also used in the different advancements of new computer technology. With each new generation, the circuitry has gotten smaller and more advanced than the previous generation before it.

As a result of the miniaturization, speed, power, and computer memory has proportionally increased. New discoveries are constantly being developed that affect the way we live, work and play.

Each generation of computers is characterized by major technological development that fundamentally changed the way computers operate, resulting in increasingly smaller, cheaper, and more powerful and more efficient and reliable devices.

Read about each generation and the developments that led to the current devices that we use today. The generations which are divided in to fifth categories can be describe as:

Generations	Period	Technology
Early Period	1000 BC-1940	Many As describe in previous Chapter
First Generation	1942-1955	Vacuums Tube
Second Generation	1955-1964	Transistors
Third Generation	1964-1975	Integrated Circuits (ICs)
Forth Generation	Since 1975	Microprocessor/Large Scale Integration
Fifth Generation	Since 1980	Artificial Intelligence

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