Evolution of Microprocessor

First they have been powered by vacuum tubes and magnetic drums so they can store data and memory. Then times goes on and there’s no vacuum tube anymore. It was replaced by a transistor. Dr. Mark Dean has made a way to calculate billions within seconds. That was with a gigahertz chip. One gigahertz equals one billion cycles per second. He made a new system that allowed interior devices that can be plugged into a computer. The outcome at the end was more skilled and a better union. His work didn’t just stop there. His research helped changed the power of the personal computer. Dean has made such a great impact in this

The 8086 and 8085are microprocessor chips designed by Intel 8086 is 16 bit microprocessor and 8085 is 8 bit microprocessor. Microprocessor is asilicon chip that contains Arithmatic and logic unit, register circuits & control circuits

In 1968 the 6600 lost its title of the fastest computer in the world when the CDC 7600 was made. The way the 6600 worked was by having 10 computers process stuff or known as the peripheral processors, which funnel data to a central cpu. The Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency hired the University of Illinois to build a processing computer and its name would be the ILLIAC IV, which did not operate until 1972 at NASA's Arms Research. This computer was the first large-scale array, and it had the speed of 200 million instructions per

Computers become more advanced, with more functions. The first Apple computer was sold with Atari's first video game console on the year 1977.

The ENIAC was invented by John Mauchly and J.Presper Eckert, Jr.and built from 1943-1945. The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator), often referred to as the first computer, was built to supply the need for faster calculations. It started the information age and led to the development of the first commercial computers (The ENIAC).

Even though the instruction set has remained intact, the successive generations of microprocessors that run it have become much faster. Within various programming language directives, IA-32 is still sometimes referred to as the "i386" architecture.

Intel is one of the most prestigious companies that were able to produce its first 4-bit microprocessor on November 15, 1971. On April 1, 1972, Intel was able to introduce its 8-bit microprocessor when also being able to create processors such as Intel 8080, 8085, 8086, 8088, 80186, 80188, as well as

In May of 1992 IBM, Motorola and Apple formally dedicate a new facility that will serve as the focal point of design and development efforts for the PowerPC family of single-chip, reduced instruction set computing (RISC) microprocessors. In 1993, during the annual Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple demonstrates a prototype Macintosh computer running on an 80 MHz PowerPC 601 processor, achieving a new performance level in the industry. The company also demonstrates PowerPC-compatibility with existing Macintosh applications software.

The first desktop all-in-one personal computer was the HP 9830 (1972) the first known PC was IBM’s 5150 introduced in 1981. The PC was known for its CUI , it required the Disk Operating System (DOS) to operate it and it offered a broad list of business software solution such as word processors, spreadsheets, calendars etc.

The closest comparison to this small computer at the time was the Altair 8800 and the Intel microprocessors used in calculators and watches. An improved version of the Apple 1 developed into the Apple 11, the first personal computer with graphics and a keyboard, and IBM soon followed Apple’s lead with their version of a small computer. The market for personal computers had been primarily in the business industry. Apple Computer sales netted $50 million by the last quarter of 1979 (Gitman & McDaniel, 2009) and Apple soon became the personal computer of choice for many small businesses and families, especially when Apple introduced the more user- friendly Macintosh computer in the 1980’s. The Macintosh was Apple’s first major step in adapting the personal computer to the desires of corporate America. In ten years, Apple had grown from two employees in a garage to a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees (Jobs, 1985). What began as a hobby for Jobs and Wozniak soon became an essential part of many households and established the foundation for the Apple empire.

It was later in 1977 that the Apple II was released. “This computer was the cutting edge of technology at the time, introducing the first operating system with color graphics” (Richardson, n.d.).

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak (Woz) are the two geniuses of their time. They created the Apple Company in the 1970s, and when these two combined their knowledge of computing, they invented the world first low-cost computer in 1977, the Apple II. Not only these computers are affordable, they were user friendly, and they had a useful program called VisiCalc (the world first spreadsheet that is useful for business people). These computers sold millions (page 138-139). After the success with Apple II, the two Steves work together with Xerox PARC. With the collaboration Apple and Xerox, they invented the Macintosh. Unlike its precedent, the Apple II, the Macintosh it had a revolutionary GUI

In 1975 Popular Electronics magazine featured a cover story about the Altiar 8800, the first personal computer. The article inspired Gates and Allen to develop the first version of the BASIC programming language for the Altiar. They licensed the software to Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), the Altiar's manufacturer, and formed Microsoft (originally Micro-soft) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to develop versions of BASIC for other computer companies. Microsoft's early customers included fledgling hardware firms such as Apple Computer, maker of the Apple II computer; Commodore, maker of the PET computer; and Tandy Corporation; maker of the Radio Shack TRS-80 computer. In 1977 Microsoft shipped it's second language product, Microsoft FORTRAN, and it soon released versions of BASIC for the 8080 and the 8086 microprocessors.

1946: Mauchly and Presper leave the University of Pennsylvania and get financing from the Census Bureau to manufacture the UNIVAC, the first business workstation for business and government applications.eniac - World's first electronic, expansive scale, universally useful machine, constructed by Mauchly and Eckert, and initiated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946. ENIAC reproduced on an advanced machine chip. See a clarification of ENIAC on a Chip by the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania.

The first ever computer was invented in the 1820s by Charlse Babbage. However the first electronic digital computer were developed between 1940 and 1945 in the United States and in the United Kingdom. They were gigantic, originally the size of a large room, and also need to be supply a large amount of power source which is equivalent as several hundred modern personal computers. The history of computer hardware covers the developments from simple devices to aid calculation, to mechanical calculators, punched card data processing and on to modern stored program computers. The tools or mechanical tool used to help in calculation are called calculators while the machine operator that help in calculations is called computer. At first the