Generations Of Computers and their Evolutions ?
Generations Of Computers and their Evolutions ? FIRST GENERATION OF COMPUTERS (1949-55) : The first electronic computer was introduced in 1946 by a team led by Professors Eckert and Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania in U.S.A.-This computer was called Electronic Numerical.integrator and Calculator (ENIAC). It used high speed vacuum tube switching devices. It had a very small memory and was designed primarily to calculate the trajectories of missiles. The ENIAC added two digits in around 200 microseconds and multiplied in about 2800 microseconds. IMPLEMENTATION OF PROGRAM LOOPS : The first computer was designed and commissioned in 1949 at Cambridge University, U.K. under the leadership of Professor Maurice Wilkes. This computer called EDSAC (Electronic Delay storage Automatic Calculator) used mercury delay lines for storage. Early in the 1950s, stored programme electronic computers saw commercial manu...