Mention three characteristics of the 4th generation computers.

Answer:

-Used very large integrated circuits (VSLI) technology to develop a microprocessor.
-Optical disks were introduces for data storage.
-Graphical user interface operating systems were introduced.
-The mouse and other handheld devices were used for data input.
-Computer networking was introduced and used for resource sharing.
-Processing speed increased to 500 million instructions per second (50MIPS).
Virtual memory was introduced.

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