Labels:book | car | cushion | daily | earth | house | lodestone | plant | reckoner | sky | tree OCR: 4 9 2 SECTION A CHAPTER In addition to vacuum tube technology, first-generation computers were characterized by custom application programs, made to order for the spe- cific task the computer was to perform. Programming first-generation computers was difficult. As the computer era dawned programmers were forced to think in 1s and 0s to write instruct tions in machine language. Before the first generation ended, programmers had devised rudimentary compilers that allowed them to write instructions using assembly language op codes, such as LDA and JNZ Assembly language was 5L smal step for- ward, but like machine language was machine specific and required programmers to learn different set of instructions for each computer Although many companies recognized the potential machines to perform f ...
