Third Generation Computers (1964 -?)
Last Updated on Monday, 12 October 2009 02:08 Written by arton Tuesday, 29 September 2009 12:53
Third Generation Computers
Characteristic
Some historians consider the most important events of the computer history occurred when IBM launched the System 360 computer on April 7, 1964. System 360 includes a computer into the third generation. Integrated circuits are the new technology of this generation as well as transistors in the second generation.
Compatibility problems in the second generation of computers is almost lost in this third-generation computers. However, third-generation computers were entirely different from the second generation. The change is ‘revolutionary’, not ‘evolutionary’, and causes the conversion to large-scale thousands of existing computer.
In mid 1960, almost a fact that every computer installation can be expanded quickly. An important characteristic of this third-generation computers are ‘upward compatibility (upward compatibility)’, which means companies can buy computers from vendors and then if necessary to upgrade it to a more sophisticated computer without reprogram existing information systems.
Third-generation computers work very fast (in time) that can run a program concurrently (multiprogramming).
Minicomputers
Request a small computer (small-computer) for business applications and science / research is very large so that not a few computer makers to produce only small-alone computer. Small-computer, better known as minicomputers. Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and Data General Corporation (DGC) became the first leading role in the sale and manufacture of this minicomputers.
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