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Zero'th generation - mechanical computers
| Blaise Pascal | Charles Babbage | difference engine | analytical engine |
| Ada Lovelace |
First generation - vacuum tubes
| Enigma | Colossus | Alan Turing | ENIAC |
| ILLIAC | John von Neumann | von Neumann machine | accumulator |
Second generation - transistors
| William Shockley | Kenneth Olsen | Digital Equipment Co. | PDP-1 |
| minicomputer | Seymour Cray | supercomputer |
Third generation - integrated circuits
| Robert Noyce | System/360 | multiprogramming | PDP-11 |
Fourth generation - VLSI
| Steve Jobs | Steve Wozniak | PC clones | MS-DOS |
| Microsoft |
| Gordon Moore | Moore's Law | virtuous circle | |
Pentium (Intel) family
| 4004 | 8080 | 8088 | 80386 |
| MMX | backward compatible |
Sparc (Sun) family
| Andy Bechtolsheim | Scott McNealy | Bill Joy | Sparc |
| Ultrasparc | Sparc, version 9 | Visual Instruction Set (VIS) |
Java family
| Dennis Ritchie | Bjarne Stroustrup | Java | Java Virtual Machine (JVM) |
| applets | picoJava |