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Briefly describe the third generation of computers. {Ans: > Integrated circuit are introduced reducing size and cost to make minicomputers}Briefly describe the fifth generation of computers. {Ans: > Laptops, palm top computers >improvement in secondary storage media >use of multimedia}What is the function of the control unit subsystem in a computer? {Ans: Controls the operations of the memory, ALU and input/output}Both the data and programs should have the same format, what format is that? {Ans: Binary patterns}Define a computer based on the Turing model {Ans: The model that incorporates the programs. Here the output data depends on the input data AND the program}What are two broad categories of of computer science? {Ans: >Systems areas >Applications areas}Explain the component of computer software. {Ans: These are programs stored and combined to do a particular task(Algorithms) and using computer languages, operating systems and software engineers}What does application areas entail? {Ans: Anything related to the use oF computers ie. databases and artificial intelligence}What is the function of the input/output subsystem in a computer? {Ans: Accepts inputs from outside the computer, send out the output}Name the two broad categories computer science can be split into.