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1. Explain super computers.
2. Differentiate between First Generation and Second Generation of computers.
3. Differentiate between interpreter and compiler.
4. Explain special purpose computer.
5. What do you know about wild card characters?
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1. 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 instead of million instructions per second. Since 2017, there are supercomputers which can perform over 10¹⁷ FLOPS.
2. in size while in Second Generation Computers Transistors were used as an internal component as they were smaller than first-generation computers.
second generation: size of the computer was smaller than the first generation called a minicomputer.
first Generation: The size of the computer was very high.
3. Interpreter translates just one statement of the program at a time into machine code. Compiler scans the entire program and translates the whole of it into machine code at once. An interpreter takes very less time to analyze the source code. However, the overall time to execute the process is much slower.
4. a computer designed from scratch to perform a specific function. contrast with general purpose computer.
5. Alternatively referred to as a wild character or wildcard character, a wildcard is a symbol used to replace or represent one or more characters. The most common wildcards are the asterisk (*), which represents one or more characters and question mark (?) that represents a single character. In the examples below of how a wildcard may be used, realize that wildcards are relatively universal
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