Saturday, July 11, 2015

Third Generation of COMPUTER

Third Generation:- (System 360 Mainframe from IBM, PDP-8 Mini Computer from Digital Equipment Corporation)



⦁    ICs were used

⦁    Small Scale Integration and Medium Scale Integration technology were implemented in CPU, I/O processors etc.

⦁     Smaller & better performance

⦁     Comparatively lesser cost

⦁    Faster processors

⦁    In the beginning magnetic core memories were used. Later they were replaced by semiconductor memories (RAM & ROM).

⦁    Introduced microprogramming

⦁    Microprogramming, parallel processing (pipelining, multiprocessor system etc),
multiprogramming, multi-user system (time shared system) etc were introduced.

⦁    Operating system software were introduced (efficient sharing of a computer system by several user programs).

⦁    Cache and virtual memories were introduced (Cache memory makes the main memory appear faster than it really is. Virtual memory makes it appear larger).

⦁      High level languages were standardized by ANSI eg. ANSI FORTRAN, ANSI COBOL etc 
Database management, multi-user application, online systems like closed loop process control, airline reservation, interactive query systems, automatic industrial control etc emerged during this period.

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