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Third generation computers

January 13, 2010 by  
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Third generation computers employed integrated circuits in which all the elements of an electronic circuit are contained in a tiny silicon wafer. Third generation came into existence in 1964 and was used till 1971. Third generation computers were much cheaper and more reliable than second generation of computers. They were also speedier and had vaster [...]

Super computers V/s Mainframe computers

January 13, 2010 by  
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The computer comes in many different sizes from its very beginning. Super computers are the largest and fastest computers available but very much expensive computer systems. they are used in specialized areas such as defense, aircraft design, weather research, etc. super computers mainly does the parallel processing that is one supercomputer employ so many processors [...]