Computer Generation Essay

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Computer history is based and consisted of different components during different periods of time. There are five different generations and during each one, different components are invented and used to make computers better. The development of computers is known as generations. Usually, the generations develop how computers operate, to make them smaller, cheaper, and make it more efficient and more reliable. All the generations started in 1940 by ENIAC. All computers till 2014 use low language, but humans use high level language which is close to English. Low level language is a computer language which is consisted of zeros and ones. Some of the high level languages are FORTRAN, Pascal, Basic, C and C++, and finally, Java. Computers have been …show more content…

In the fifth generation, many different ideas had been developed and started from 1985. Some of these ideas are video games, voice recognition, and robots. Many people felt the difference in this generation because machines started to be more useful and used everywhere. There is one main goal for the fifth generation, which is computers use fiber technology. The use of fiber technology should help in by computers overtake and perform the task needed without needing the order from a human. The fifth generation tried also to use nanotechnology, molecular, and quantum computation which was a device that was consisted of unlimited lengthened tape. The quantum computers had beed developed that it is faster at doing calculations than the silicon based computer. After Alan Turing invented turning machine, which was a device that was made of tape of an unlimited length and can hold a zero, a one, or a blank place, the quantum was invented which helped because the unlimited length tapes were placed inside the quantum state. The person who should be credited because of his work on quantum computers is Paul Benioff. He created quantum computers in 1981 after the development of turning machines. Quantum record data in bits and qubits. Qubits illustrates atoms, ions, and electrons that create computer memory. There are some machines that is considered in the fifth generation like desktop, laptop, and notebook, this generation should develop through out the upcoming

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