Q. Show the developments that happened in third generation?
The main developments that happened in third generation can be summarized as below:
- Application of IC circuits in computer hardware substituting discrete transistor component circuits. Thus, computers became less expensive and small in physical size.
- Use of Semiconductor (Integrated Circuit) memories like main memory replacing previous technologies.
- CPU design was made simple as well as CPU was made more flexible by using a technique known as microprogramming.
- Several new techniques were initiated to increase effective speed of program execution. These techniques were multiprocessing and pipelining.
- Operating system of computers was incorporated with resourceful methods of sharing the resources or facilities like memory space and processor automatically. These ideas are known as multiprogramming.