Answer the following questions:
a. Write a short note on calculating devices.
b. What are the features of the first-generation computers?
Write a short note on second generation of computers.
d. What are super computers? Write a note on PARAM.
e.What are the five basic features of a computer?
Answers
Answer:
Explanation:
a) device capable of performing a series of arithmetic or logical operations is called calculating device
b) they are;
Technology used: vacuum tube.
Machines languages were used to instruct the computer.
Magnetic core memory was used as primary memory.
Electrostatic tubes, Parer tape, punch card, magnetic tape.
A transistor computer, now often called a second generation computer, is a computer which uses discrete transistors instead of vacuum tubes. A second generation of computers, through the late 1950s and 1960s featured circuit boards filled with individual transistors and magnetic core memory.
d) A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second (FLOPS) instead of million instructions per second (MIPS)
e) they are;
speed
diligence
accuracy
versatile
reliable
memory