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PC
personal computer
personal computer
1972
Intel’s 8008 microprocessor made its debut
1973
The Micral, the earliest commercial, non-kit personal computer
1974
Scelbi advertised its 8Hcomputer
Whats is the first commericially advertised us computer
Scelbi 8-h
1976
Steve Wozniak designed apple 1
What did wozniak design?
Apple 1
1977
Apple computer introduced the apple II
1979
Motorolla intruduced the 6800 microprocessor
1981
Xerox introduced the star, the first personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI).
1983
Apple introduced the Apple Lisa computer which incorporated a GUI
1984
Apple Computer launched the Macintosh, the first successful mouse-driven computer with GUI
1986
Compaq announced the Deskpro 386, It was the first computer on the market to use Intel's new 386 chip.
1987
IBM introduced its PS/2,
3½-inch floppy drive
VGA video
MCA bus
1988
Compaq and other PC clone makers developed EISA.
EISA
Enhanced Industry Standard Architecture
1989
Intel released the 486 microprocessor.
It was a full 32-bit CPU
1993
Intel released its fifth-generation processor called P5.
1995
Intel released the Pentium Pro.
It was the first processor in the P6 family.
1997
AMD introduced the K6
1998
Intel released the Celeron.
It was a low-cost version of the Pentium II.
1999
Intel
Released the Pentium III.
It was essentially a Pentium II with SSE added.
AMD
Introduced the Athlon
2000
Both Intel and AMD introduced processors running at 1 GHz.
AMD introduced Duron, a low-cost Athlon.
Intel introduced Pentium 4.
2001
Intel introduced the first 2GHz processor
2006
Intel introduced the Core microarchitecture.
It was considered a major improvement in processor performance.
2008
Intel introduced the Penryn microarchitecture.
It was built using a 45 nm manufacturing process.
CPU
Central Processing Unit
Microprocessor
Processor
What does the CPU do?
Reads data and instructions.
Writes data and instructions.
Performs calculations.
Processes data.
Communicates with many other computer components.