Thursday 9 May 2013

Fourth Generation of Computers

The computers from the year 1971 are known as fourth generation computers.

                                                          Fourth Generation Computer

Microprocessors brought the fourth generation of computers, as thousands of integrated circuits were built on a single silicon chip.

                                                    Microprocessor (Intel i7)
                                                  
First microprocessor was developed by Intel and is known as Intel 4004.
From the central processing unit and memory to input/output control on a single chip.
Fourth generation computers also shown the development of Graphical User Interface (GUI), the mouse and hand held devices.

Today's computers are known as fourth generation computers.
In 1981 IBM introduced its first computer for home user and in 1984 apple introduced the Macintosh

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