MICROPROCESSOR AND MICROCONTROLLER

COMPUTER FUNDAMENTAL

ARCHITECTURE OF 8085

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
All modern computers are based on this concept ____
A
Pascaline
B
abacus
C
Analytical Engine
D
Tabulating machine
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Analytical Engine has many essential features found in the modern digital computer. It was programmable using punched cards, an idea borrowed from the Jacquard loom used for weaving complex patterns in textiles.

Detailed explanation-2: -The analytical engine was a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage. It was first described in 1837 as the successor to Babbage’s difference engine, which was a design for a simpler mechanical calculator.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Analytical Engine was a much more sophisticated device. The Analytical Engine is much more than a calculator and marks the progression from the mechanized arithmetic of calculation to something that was the mechanical precursor to the modern computer. It was programmable using punched cards.

Detailed explanation-4: -Analytical Engine. In 1835, Charles Babbage created plans his Analytical Engine. Babbage’s machine had many of the components of a modern computer: a control unit (punched card control), memory (the store), a processor (the mill), an input device (card reader), and an output device (a printer).

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