Common Operating Machine Particularly Used for Trade, Education, and Research (COMPUTER)

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Computer stands for Common Operating Machine Particularly Used for Trade, Education, and Research i.e. a device capable of performing operations based on instructions provided by the software.

Computers have been rapidly developing over the past decades, because of its high demand in almost every sector. They are transforming speedily into advancement by introducing high-level configuration day by day.

Characteristics of a Computer: Speed, storage capacity, accuracy, diligence, and versatility.

Main Components of a Computer:

CPU
Input devices
Output devices
Monitor
SMPS
Hard disk
USB
Ethernet cable
RAM
ROM
Motherboard
Graphics card

List of the common operating system used in PCs are:

Mac OS X
Linux
IOS
Android
Windows

Generations of Computer:

Generations	Highlight Features
1st Generation Computers (1940-1955)	Vacuum Tubes
2nd Generation Computers (1956-1965)	Transistors
3rd Generation Computers (1966-1975)	Integrated Circuits
4th Generation Computers (1976-1985)	Microprocessors
5th Generation (1986-till date)	Artificial Intelligence
6th Generation (Future Predictions)	Accurate voice recognition feature with more advancement Nanotechnology and parallel processing for high speed and flexibility. Gaming and power saving.

Present Generation of Computer

Fifth Generation Computer with concepts of artificial intelligence, superconductors, machine learning with parallel processing, quantum computation and introduced voice recognition.