Autonomic computing was an idea that came to existence because of the great need to its basic concepts, which it’s to have available resources, applications that can manage themselves in accordance with high level guidance from humans. The idea of autonomic computing is not new, but it developed cloud computing through the years to reach the current situation (autonomic computing). In this paper, there will be an overview for other types of computing besides autonomic computing to highlight the differences between them, the characteristics and the advantages and disadvantages for each.