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What started as simple code completion has evolved through distinct generations, each representing a fundamental shift in how ...

For some of the latest “third generation” computers, such programs require 1,000,000 hand-devised computations.

A computer that used integrated circuits, disk storage and online terminals. The third generation started roughly in 1964 with the IBM System/360. See computer generations and System/360.