CS-101 / Fall 1997
Computer Taxonomies & Generations: Lecture Overview
Computers are everywhere!
General-purpose versus Special-Purpose Computers
Computer Ancestry...
The First Real Computers: Generation 0
Konrad Zuse
John Atanasoff
Howard Aiken
John Mauchly and Presper Eckert
New Technology = New Generation
First-Generation Computers: The Vacuum Tube Era
Second-Generation Computers: The Transistor Era
Third-Generation Computers: The Integrated Circuit Era
Fourth-Generation Computers: The Microprocessor Era
How Faster, Cheaper, and Smaller will future computers be?
Computers Today: A Brief Taxonomy
Multi-user Computers
Single-user Computers
Portable Computers
Special-purpose Computers and Embedded Computers
Are we in the “Fifth” Generation? The Network Revolution
The Internet Era
Living with Computers
Explanations
Applications
Computer Science
Implications
Email: best@bu.edu
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