Development Of Computers And Technology

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Term Paper Title	Development Of Computers And Technology
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Development of Computers and Technology

Development of Computers and Technology

     Computers in some form are in almost everything these days.  From
Toasters to Televisions, just about all electronic things has some form of
processor in them.  This is a very large change from the way it used to be, when
a computer that would take up an entire room and weighed tons of pounds has the
same amount of power as a scientific calculator.  The changes that computers
have undergone in the last 40 years have been colossal.  So many things have
changed from the ENIAC that had very little power, and broke down once every 15
minutes and took another 15 minutes to repair, to our Pentium Pro 200's, and the
powerful Silicon Graphics Workstations, the core of the machine has stayed
basically the same.  The only thing that has really changed in the processor is
the speed that it translates commands from 1's and 0's to data that actually
means something to a normal computer user.  Just in the last few years,
computers have undergone major changes.  PC users came from using MS-DOS and
Windows 3.1, to Windows 95, a whole new operating system.  Computer speeds have
taken a huge increase as well, in 1995 when a  normal computer was a 486
computer running at 33 MHz, to 1997 where a blazing fast Pentium (AKA 586)
running at 200 MHz plus.  The next generation of processors is slated to come
out this year as well, being the next CPU from Intel, code named Merced, running
at 233 MHz, and up.  Another major innovation has been the Internet.  This is a
massive change to not only the computer world, but to the entire world as well.
The Internet has many different facets, ranging from newsgroups, where you can
choose almost any topic to discuss with a range of many other people, from
university professors, to professionals of the field of your choice, to the
average person, to IRC, where you can chat in real time to other people around
the world, to the World Wide Web, which is a mass of information networked from
places around the world.  Nowadays, no matter where you look, computers are
somewhere, doing something.
     Changes in computer hardware and software have taken great leaps and
jumps since the first video games and word processors.  Video games started out
with a game called Pong...monochrome (2 colors, typically amber and black, or
green and black), you had 2 controller paddles, and the game resembled a slow
version of Air Hockey.  The first word processors had their roots in MS-...

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