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单词 first, second, etc, generation
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first, second, etc., generation
(b) A recognized stage in the development of computers. Usually with prefixed numeral, frequently forming attributive phrases; as first, second, etc., generation.The consistently defined generations are the first (employing valves), the second (employing transistors), and the fifth (envisaged as including the capacity for artificial intelligence).
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1952 Rev. Electronic Digital Computers (Amer. Inst. Electr. Engineers) 109/3 In building the first generation of electronic digital computers, we have learned the magnitude of the engineering involved.
1963 Computer Jrnl. 6 144/1 It has recently become conventional to distinguish between ‘first-generation computers’ and ‘second-generation computers’. The term second-generation computer has come to mean transistorized core-store computers, mostly with some sort of time-sharing routine.
1979 G. Bear Psychlone 187 What is it, you need advice on semiconductors for your fifth-generation computers?
1984 QL User Dec. 18 A fifth-generation computer is an artificial intelligence machine, a super-expert system.
2002 S. Mueller Upgrading & repairing PCs (ed. 14) i. 22 The fourth and current generation of the modern computer includes those that incorporate microprocessors.
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