IT Basics 1
Contents
Bibliography
Laboratory contents
Short history of the computers
The abacus: the first “Automatic Computer”
Pioneers - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
Pioneers - Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
“Difference Engine”
Claude Shannon
Howard Aiken and IBM Harvard Mark I computer
William Mauchly, J. Presper Eckert - ENIAC - Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer
ENIAC - 1946
The next generations
John Von Neumann
The first transistor
The first integrated circuit
11/28/2018 Moore’ Law In 1965 Gordon Moore predicted that the number of transistors from a microprocessor will double every interval of aprox.18 months http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/silicon-innovations/moores-law-technology.html 28-Nov-18
The path to the first personal computer (PC)
Personal computers
Personal computers (cont.)
Personal computers (cont.)
Personal computers (cont.)
Portable computers (laptop) and PDA
iPhone!
I/O, processing, storage
Flynn’s taxonomy – parallel calculus
SISD (Single Instruction, Single Data)
SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data)
MISD (Multiple Instruction, Single Data)
MIMD (Multiple Instruction, Multiple Data)