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- Computer generation is any of the five
- broad groups into which computers may be
- classified: first generation is the
- earliest computers, developed in the 1940s
- and 1950s, made from valves and wire
- circuits. Second generation is from the early
- 1960s, based on transistors and printed
- circuits. Third generation is from the late
- 1960s, using integrated circuits. Fourth
- generation computers use microprocessors,
- large-scale integration, and sophisticated
- programming languages, and are still in use
- in the 1990s. And fifth generation computers
- are based on parallel processing and very
- large-scale integration, currently under
- development.
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- Subject by: Samantha Good
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