Comp Arch CH 01 L04 Third Gen
Comp Arch CH 01 L04 Third Gen
Lesson 04
Evolution of Computers Part 4─ Third
generation computers
Objective
• 1964-74
• Transistor Integrated circuits (ICs) evolved for
electronic circuits
• IC circuit based computers─ third generation
computers
• IBM 360
• PDP 11
• VAX
• CDC Cyber
Input-Output
Ferrite CPU Devices,
Memory IO processors
Program
0 to 224 and and the disk
Flow Unit drive, tape
IC memory
Registers, drive and line
16 kB printers
Control
chips of 1 memory
kB each and
Execution
Unit
Schaum’s Outline of Theory and Problems of Computer Architecture 14
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CPU Registers
CPU