What are the five generations of computers?
Write a brief note on each generation of computer. The fundamental task of a computer is to perform numerical calculations and logic functions. The first generation of computers was designed to meet the first of these tasks. Although very large, power consuming, slow and difficult to operate, the first computers basically did the same thing that all modern computers do today – crunch numbers. Many first generation computers were designed to do a specific task. The government commissioned many of these machines to break secret codes, calculate missile and ordinance trajectories for the military and perform repeated calculations that take humans much longer to do. The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first general-purpose computer. A successor to the ENIAC was the EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer) built in 1945. It was the first computer to have a stored memory – that is it could pause a calculation and then be restarted from where it lef
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