Although his career in computing spanned more than two decades, he is mainly remembered in connection with IBM's unsuccessful attempt in 1980 to license CP / M for the IBM PC.

Although Kildall preferred to leave the IBM affair in the past and to be known for his work before and afterward, he continually faced comparisons between himself and Bill Gates as well as fading memories of his contributions.

Although it is often conjectured that the name HAL was based on a one-letter shift from the name IBM, this has been denied by both Clarke and 2001 director Stanley Kubrick.

Although IBM no longer manufactures 3270 terminals the IBM 3270 protocol is still commonly used via terminal emulation to access some mainframe-based applications.

Although this vaccine is likely not safe for human use, it still shows that attacking Aβ has efficacy in mice against IBM.

Although IBM began indicating shortly after the release of Warp 4 that OS / 2 would eventually be withdrawn, the company did not end support until December 31, 2006.

Although IBM used EBCDIC, most text from then on came to be encoded in ASCII, using values from 0 to 31 for ( non-printing ) control characters, and values from 32 to 127 for graphic characters such as letters, digits, and punctuation.

Although z / OS customers vary in their maintenance practices, IBM encourages every z / OS customer to adopt a reasonable preventive maintenance strategy, to avoid known problems before they might occur.

Although Compaq kept its BIOS proprietary, eventually the Phoenix BIOS and similar commercially-available products permitted computer makers to build essentially 100 %- compatible clones without having to reverse-engineer the IBM PC BIOS themselves.

Although the IBM PC was designed for expandability, the designers could not anticipate the hardware developments of the 1980s, nor the size of the industry they would engender.

Although IBM famously chose to exclude virtual memory from the S / 370 announcement, that decision was being reconsidered during the completion of the 145 engineering, due partly to virtual memory experience at CSC and elsewhere.

Although CP / M had dominated the market, and was shipped with the vast majority of non-proprietary-architecture personal computers, the IBM PC in 1981 brought the beginning of what was eventually to be a massive change.

Although the ultimate expression of software-hardware co-evolution is the IBM mainframe, to some extent that phenomenon occurs on other platforms as well, as IBM's software engineers collaborate with their hardware counterparts.

Although the IBM and compatibles initially lacked the hardware sound processing capabilities of the Amiga, with the advent of the Sound Blaster line from Creative, PC audio slowly began to approach CD Quality ( 44. 1 kHz / 16-bit / Stereo ) with the release of the SoundBlaster 16.

Although the NDA was later accepted, Digital Research would not accept IBM's proposal of $ 250, 000 in exchange for as many copies as IBM could sell, insisting on the usual royalty-based plan.

Although GCOS has a basic architecture similar to that of the IBM 360 and subsequent operating systems with which it competed, it was also heavily influenced by projects such as MEDINET, Multics, and WWMCCS, and has inherited a strong security structure in consequence.

Although revenue from the initial OS / 2 release was never paid by the bankrupt publisher, popular support encouraged Stardock to release Shipyards, an add-on pack that allowed users to design their own starships, and this provided enough revenue to support further development, with a simplified version being sold to IBM in 1995 as Star Emperor.

Although not consistently in any manner, IBM preferred term at that moment was monitor.

Although they once did, IBM no longer manufactures printers.

Although never documented by IBM, an alternative planar 256 color mode is available by " unchaining " the video ram ; video modes created using this technique are collectively called Mode X.

Although there is no legal entity that owns the OpenAFS source code, copyright on many files is attributed to IBM.

Although the design of the original Courier typeface was commissioned by IBM, the company deliberately chose not to secure legal exclusivity to the typeface and it soon became a standard font used throughout the typewriter industry.

Although ports for the Amiga, Atari ST, Macintosh and PC-9801 platforms exist, the primary development was for the IBM PC platform.

Although the C128 could not run any DOS-based software, this capability allowed data files to be exchanged with PC users.

Although we were competitors, I always had tremendous respect for his contributions to the PC industry.

Although this market segment is now much reduced, the technologies developed in this area continue to be influential on the Internet and in both Linux and Apple Mac OS X networking — and the TCP / IP protocol has now almost completely replaced IPX, AppleTalk, NBF, and other protocols used by the early PC LANs.

Although most POP clients have an option to leave mail on server after download, e-mail clients using POP generally connect, retrieve all messages, store them on the user's PC as new messages, delete them from the server, and then disconnect.

Although it is still included on most PC keyboards manufactured, and though it is used by some debugging software, the key is of no use for the vast majority of users.

Although there was no full-scale PAL region release of the system, imported PC Engine consoles were largely available in France and Benelux through major retailers thanks to the unlicensed importer Sodipeng ( Société de Distribution de la PC Engine, a subsidiary of Guillemot International ).< ref >

Although not the first PC video card to support hardware acceleration, IBM's 8514 is often credited as the first PC mass-market fixed-function accelerator.

Although the open architecture of the PC and its successors had been a great success for them, and they were the biggest single manufacturer, most of the market was buying faster and cheaper IBM-compatible machines made by other firms.

Although bulk of the officers were recruited from among volunteers from among U. S. commissioned and noncommissioned officers, two Filipinos qualified for appointment as 3rd Lieutenants during the first month of the PC ,-Jose Velasquez of Nueva Ecija and Felix Llorente of Manila.

Although the Circuit is no longer driveable, it can still be simulated in the Spirit of Speed 1937 game for the PC and Sega Dreamcast, in which it was re-created in detail.

Although the number of official games available for the GP32 system is limited, many open source / free software developers worked on various emulators and ported PC games.

Although the game boasted original soundtrack music by Brian May ( guitarist of Queen ), only a short intro from The Dark appeared in the final release, while the actual in-game score was done by Mirage ( in the case of the PC version, there was no in-game music at all ).

Although the PC was put into bankruptcy, its parent Penn Central Company was able to survive.

Although the per capita penetration of computers and broadband internet access is very high in South Korea, PC bangs remain popular as they provide a social meeting place for gamers ( especially school-aged gamers ) to play together with their peers.

Although PC bangs are used by all ages and genders, they are most popular with male gamers in their teens and twenties.

Although computer and broadband penetration per capita were very high, young people went to PC bangs to play multiplayer games.

Although it could run on any Intel 8086-or Intel 80286-based PC.

Although currently there is no labeling standard, DVDs with content originally produced in a 16: 9 aspect ratio are typically labeled " Anamorphic Widescreen ," " Enhanced for 16: 9 televisions ," " Enhanced for widescreen televisions ," or similar.

Although the Enhanced Full Rate helps to improve call quality, this codec have higher computational complexity, which in a mobile device can potentially result in increase of energy consumption as high as 5 % compared to ' old ' FR codec.

Although not officially supported, the game is moddable, and a single mod named " LaserArena Enhanced " exists, improving textures and sounds as well as adding some useful keybinds that were not available in the original game.