COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION

DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The ____ engine had five units to work.
A
difference
B
tabulating
C
analytical
D
all
E
none
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -So this thing was divided into 5 units – called arithmetic logic unit (ALU), basic flow control, punch cards, and memory. It had a basic CPU like today’s Intel’s chip which was alone capable of handling enough basic calculations, which are stored in thousands of 50 decimal values which were stored in 675 bytes of ram.

Detailed explanation-2: -Charles Babbage Analytical Engine: How It Worked The mill was the calculating unit, similar to a current computer’s central processing unit (CPU); the store to store data before processing, parallel to memory and storage in modern computers; and the printer and reader were the input and output devices.

Detailed explanation-3: -During first generation of computers analytical engine were introduced. These first generation of computers use counter wheels as memory unit to store data. analytical engine was invented by Charles Babbage in 1833.

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