plain words and symbols Enabled the computers to contain an operating system
The OS lets the user ask the computer to perform
a task, and the OS translates the task into machine language code The OS keeps the various parts of the computer running together smoothly
emergence of MULTIPROGRAMMING This enabled the computer to run more than one job simultaneously in 1970, IBM introduced the floppy disk drive in their 3740 system computer This provided three times more storage space and faster access to the information
Circuitry 1000 to 10000 Transistors per Integrated Circuit or chip Age of Microcomputers
Apple Computer IBM Personal Computer (PC)
More developments
Computers spread from the workplace into the
home Computers are faster, have more memory, and are relatively inexpensive Increase in the quantity and quality of software available Very large-scale IC: 10,000 to 1 million Transistors per Integrated Circuit or chip
(DARPA) designed a network of computers that would allow important information to be accessible even during a nuclear attack. First network was called Arpanet (1969) Links between four computer sites:
UCLA Stanford Research Institute UC-Santa Barbara University of UTAH
one of the sites was destroyed by a nuclear attack, the other sites could continue to function. Soon, other government and educational institutions began to connect to this computer network. These researchers shared not only academic information but also communicated socially with each other.
Invention of the Telegraph Machine Invention of the Telephone Invention of the Email Birth of MP3 What is MPEG? WWW Yahoo Netscape eBay
Research on:
Amazon RealAudio Internet Explorer Java
Flash
Winamp Blog
PayPal
Research on:
Domain Sales SQL Slammer Worm Attack
Firefox
YouTube Web 2.0 Friendster Facebook
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