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The first computers ued vacuum tubes for circuitry and magnetic drums for memory, and were often enormous taking up entire rooms -First generationcomputers relied on machie languaje, the lowest-level programing languaje understood by computers, to perform operations, and they could only solve one problem at the time, and it could take days or weeks to set-u´a new proble, -
The Trasistors replace vacuum tubes and ushered in the second geneations of computers.
-Tough the transitors still generatd a great deal of heat that subjected the computer to damage, it was a vas improvement over the vacuum tube. -
The development of integrated circuit was the hallmark f the third generation of computers.
-Computers for the first time became acessible to a mass audience because ther were smaller and cheaper than their predecessors. -
The microprocessors brought the fourth generation of computers, as thousand of integrated circuits were built onto a singlesilicon chip. -
Its based on artifiical intelligence, are still in development, thought there are some applicatoins, such as voice recognition, that being used today.
-The oal of fifth generation computing is to develop devices that respond to natural language input and are capable of learning and self-organization
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