EVENTS CONVENT HIGH SCHOOL
03/09/2021 CLASS-4 SESSION2021-22
COMPUTER
Chapter-2
GENERATION OF COMPUTERS
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Answer the following question
Question
1 How many generations of computer are there?
Answer The computer can be classified into five different
generations based on the technology used the way their work and their size.
Question.2
Give full form of?
Answer E n i a c- electronic numerical integrator and calculator
U n i v a c- universal automatic computer.
IC integrated circuits
VLSI very large scale integrated circuits.
Question.3
Name the first electronic computer?
Answer Mark 1 was the first electronic computer
Question.4
Give the limitations of the following generations of computer?
Answer First generation
limitations are:
a) Limited programming capability low operating speed
b) High power consumption
c) Not reliable
Second
generation limitations are:
a) Generate a lot of heat
b) Slow speed
c) Less memory
Question.5
Write the difference between third generation and fourth generation?
Answer (A)Third
generation
a) The period of the third generation was from 1965 to 1971
b) 3rd generation computer used integrated circuits IC'S
c) Large in size
d) They used high level languages like fortran COBOL Pascal
etc.
e) IBM 370 and 7500 third generation computer
(B) 4th
generation
a) The period of fourth generation was from 1971 to 1980
b) Fourth generation computer used VLSI also called
microprocessor.
c) Comparatively smaller in size than third generation.
d) They used for DBMS and other user friendly high level
languages.
e) IBM 4300 ICL 2900 for the computers of 4th generation
Question
.6 Which language is used in the following generation of computers?
a) First
generation computer -machine language
b) Second
generation -computer assembly language
c) Third
generation -computer f o r t r a n, c o b o l,
p a s c a l etc.
d) Fourth
generation computer are -DBMS
and high level languages.
