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Although IBM began indicating shortly after the release of Warp 4 that OS / 2 would eventually be withdrawn, the company did not end support until December 31, 2006.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 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 the IBM PC Enhanced Graphics Adapter ( EGA ) standard offers a fixed 64 color space, it only allows 16 simultaneous colors ( 16 out of 64 ), and then only in the relatively slow and barely accelerated high-res ( 640x350 ) mode.

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 it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.

Although New Orleans was not to learn of it for a spell, she also was a sadist, a nymphomaniac and unobtrusively mad -- the perpetrator of some of the worst crimes against humanity ever committed on American soil.

Although Faulkner was the heir in his own family to this tradition, he did not have Stark Young's inclination to romanticize and sentimentalize the planter society.

Although his tender nights were not the ones I dreamed of, nor was it for yachts, sports cars, tall drinks, and swimming pools, nor yet for money or what money buys that I burned, I too was burning and watching myself burn.

Although after much trouble he did manage to get it back, he discovered there was no trade to be had.

Although he did not attend any celebrated schools or universities, he was a master of Greek and Hebrew and could read the Bible in the original.

Although the fort was evacuated in the face of the force of Cornwallis, Morgan and his men did have a chance to take another swing at the redcoats.

Although because of the important achievements of nineteenth century scholars in the field of textual criticism the advance is not so striking as it was in the case of archaeology and place-names, the editorial principles laid down by Stevenson in his great edition of Asser and in his Crawford Charters were a distinct improvement upon those of his predecessors and remain unimproved upon today.

Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.

Although it was a mere fragment of the victim's remains, it was enough.

Although there were only four fluids tested, it was apparent that there were two distinct types.

Although the tape was run for over 1 hr., a steady state was not reached, and it was concluded that the reason for this was that the back pressure of the manometer was built up from the material fed from between the blocks and this was available at a very slow rate.

-- Although there was some variation in results which must be attributed either to trace impurities or to variation in wall effects, the photochemical exchange in the gas phase was sufficiently reproducible so that it seemed meaningful to compare the reaction rates in different series of reaction tubes for the purpose of obtaining information on the effect of chlorine concentration and of carbon tetrachloride concentration on the reaction rate.

Although the Taylor Scale was designed as a group testing device, in this study it was individually administered by psychologically trained workers who established rapport and assisted the children in reading the items.