INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS
COMPUTER GENERATIONS AND CLASSIFICATION
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1971 to present
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1956 to 1963
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Present to future
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1945 to 1956
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Detailed explanation-1: -The fifth generation spans the years 1980 to the present. VLSI technology evolved into ULSI (Ultra Large Scales Integrated) technology in the fifth generation, resulting in the fabrication of microprocessor chips with 10 million electronic components.
Detailed explanation-2: -The term “fifth generation” was intended to convey the system as being advanced. In the history of computing hardware, computers using vacuum tubes were called the first generation; transistors and diodes, the second; integrated circuits, the third; and those using microprocessors, the fourth.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Fifth Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) was an initiative by Japan’s Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), begun in 1982, to create computers using massively parallel computing and logic programming. It was to be the result of a government/industry research project in Japan during the 1980s.
Detailed explanation-4: -FIFTH GENERATION (1989-Present): The fifth generation brought with it the Ultra Large Scale Integration Technology(ULSI) resulting in microprocessor chips having ten million electric components. This generation is mainly based on Parallel Computing and Artificial Intelligence(AI).