Q. Show the developments that happened in third generation?

The main developments that happened in third generation can be summarized as below:

• Application of IC circuits in computer hardware substituting discrete transistor component circuits. Thus, computers became less expensive and small in physical size.

• Use of Semiconductor (Integrated Circuit) memories like main memory replacing previous technologies.

• CPU design was made simple as well as CPU was made more flexible by using a technique known as microprogramming.

• Several new techniques were initiated to increase effective speed of program execution. These techniques were multiprocessing and pipelining.

• Operating system of computers was incorporated with resourceful methods of sharing the resources or facilities like memory space and processor automatically. These ideas are known as multiprogramming.