Intergrated circuits
no, second generation. third generation computers used ICs.
Differentiate between third generation of computers and fourth generation?"
The third generation of computers started in 1964 through 1971.
Because the first, second, and third generation computers were also digital computers.
Third Generation
The first minicomputers were second generation computers, but the most well known minicomputers were third generation computers.
No one person.
Third Generation Computers were made out of Integrated Circuits and Fourth Generation Computers are made of Microprocessors.
Programming computers. That is what they were designed for.
this is generally considered to have happened in the 1970s or 1980s. however for certain special types of computers they are still third generation computers, because they contain no microprocessor(s), instead they are composed of many high density advanced random logic integrated circuits. so the third generation has still not completely ended.
First Generation (1940-1956) Everything started with vacuum tubes. These were widely used in the first computer systems for circuitry, while magnetic drums were used for memory. Second Generation (1956-1963) Next, there was the introduction of transistors, which came in to replace vacuum tubes. ... Third Generation (1964-1971) Third-generation computers were where we saw the introduction of integrated circuits (IC), which are still in use today. Fourth Generation (1971-2010) In the fourth generation of computers, the invention of the microprocessor (commonly known as CPU) helped to get computers to the desk and, later, lap-size that we ... Fifth Generation (Present Day) Although we are still using technology from the fourth generation of information technology, we are now going into a new age: the fifth generation.
VLSI chips straddle the third generation and fourth generation computers. They were used to make some third generation computers, but the development VLSI levels of integration permitted enough transistors to make a complete simple CPU in one integrated circuit chip, creating the first microprocessors (e.g. Intel 4004, Intel 8008) used to build fourth generation computers.