fourth-generation computer

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A computer made up almost entirely of chips with limited amounts of discrete components. We are currently in the fourth generation.

fourth-generation computer [′fȯrth ‚jen·ə¦rā·shən kəm′pyüd·ər]

(computer science)

A type of general-purpose digital computer used in the 1970s and 1980s that is characterized by increasingly advanced very large-scale integrated circuits and increasing use of a hierarchy of memory devices.

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