The Windows API became the de-facto standard for consumer software.

Nevertheless, Cisco managed to catch the Internet wave, with products ranging from modem access shelves ( AS5200 ) to core GSR routers that quickly became vital to Internet service providers and by 1998 gave Cisco de-facto monopoly in this critical segment.

Soon Texcoco and Tlacopan became junior partners in the alliance which was de-facto led by the Mexica of Tenochtitlan.

With IBM suffering its greatest ever public humiliation in the wake of the PS / 2 disaster, massive financial losses, and a marked lack of company unity or direction, Microsoft's combination of a soft marketing voice and a big financial stick was effective: Windows became the de-facto standard.

In 1980, Rhodesia, which had been de-facto independent since 1965, became independent from Britain and was renamed Zimbabwe.

ODBC was later ported back to those markets, and became a de-facto standard considerably better known than CLI.

In spite of Blueprint's great lead-it was running when MSDA was still a paper project-Lotus eventually joined the MSDA efforts as it became clear that SQL would become the de-facto database standard.

ODBC quickly became the de-facto standard on all platforms, and CLI is fairly rare today.

Instead, the country became and remains a de-facto confederation of competing tribes.

Since this also used MDX as a query language, MDX became the de-facto standard.

After the death of its last non-elected ruler in 2007, Malietoa Tanumafili II, Samoa became a de-facto republic.

As the weak, elderly al-Bakr became unable to execute his duties, Saddam took on an increasingly prominent role as the face of the government both internally and externally, eventually becoming de-facto leader of Iraq some years before he formally became president.

Following the dissolution of the Maakhir administration, General Ilkajir subsequently became the de-facto leader of Maakhir.

His brother Ray, who became the best-known member and de-facto leader of the band, joined soon after.

The Gashouse Gang was the southernmost and westernmost team in the major leagues at the time, and became a de-facto " America's Team.

Liu Yao was captured and executed ; his sons agreed to join Shi Le forces, and Shi Le became de-facto head of the Southern Xiongnu state.

Over time the board gained more functions and became the de-facto local authority and provider of new services for the London area.

With the transfer of de-facto sovereignty from Germany to Poland, German Schwiebus became Polish Świebodzin.

The VFR was used as Honda's homologation racing platform in the 1980s, however the introduction of lighter inline-four powered competitors in the 1990s prompted Honda to transition the VFR into a mid-sized sport touring bike, a category which the VFR became the de-facto benchmark.

AppleLink had initially been available only to dealers when it launched in 1985, but was later opened to developers and became the de-facto internal e-mail service within Apple.

All then-current colony stamps which continued on sale became de-facto Commonwealth stamps.

As being very efficient and also being an official subset of existing Amiga ILBM / IFF standard file format, it became the de-facto standard for any animation file on Amiga.

Rupprecht's grandfather, Luitpold, became de-facto ruler of Bavaria when King Ludwig II and his successor Otto both were declared insane in 1886.

IEEE 802. 3ab, ratified in 1999, defines gigabit Ethernet transmission over unshielded twisted pair ( UTP ) category 5, 5e, or 6 cabling and became known as 1000BASE-T. With the ratification of 802. 3ab, gigabit Ethernet became a desktop technology as organizations could use their existing copper cabling infrastructure.

When Ethernet moved from co-axial cable to twisted pair and an " interconnected stars " cabling topology based on active hubs, it became much more attractive.

When the power of the latter was made both limited and explicit -- when norms were clarified and made more precise and the creation of new norms was placed exclusively in parliamentary hands -- two purposes were served: Government was made subservient to an institutionalized popular will, and law became a rational system for implementing that will, for serving conscious goals, for embodying the `` public policy ''.

In practice, the Articles were in use beginning in 1777 ; the final draft of the Articles served as the de facto system of government used by the Congress (" the United States in Congress assembled ") until it became de jure by final ratification on March 1, 1781 ; at which point Congress became the Congress of the Confederation.

The voyage became the basis for the invention of the global system of Longitude.

Van Vogt was always interested in the idea of all-encompassing systems of knowledge ( akin to modern meta-systems ) -- the characters in his very first story used a system called ' Nexialism ' to analyze the alien's behaviour, and he became interested in the General Semantics of Alfred Korzybski.

Aramaic gradually became the lingua franca throughout the Middle East, with the script at first complementing and then displacing Assyrian cuneiform as the predominant writing system.

Lists of these " year names " henceforth became a calendrical system used in most independent Mesopotamian city-states.

As a result of this and the Amiga's audio and video capabilities the Amiga became a popular system for editing and producing both music and video.

The AIX family of operating systems debuted in 1986, became the standard operating system for the RS / 6000 series on its launch in 1990, and is still actively developed by IBM.

AIX / ESA, while technically advanced, had little commercial success, partially because UNIX functionality was added as an option to the existing mainframe operating system, MVS, which became MVS / ESA OpenEdition in 1999.

After selling a few kits, MCP became convinced there was a much bigger market for an improved model sold as a completed working system.

Unfortunately none of these extensions to the system became available because the company folded before any of them could be released.

* 1942 – Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.

After applying the patch the Windows 95 system became Windows 95 version 4. 00. 950 B.

They quickly became the Achilles ' heel of the system because of their combination of an overly complex mechanical design with a very low-cost internal flex circuit system.

Many systems became quite sophisticated in graphic presentation, especially considering that the system was confined to ASCII codes.

A few years later, in 1981, IBM introduced the first DOS based IBM PC, and due to the overwhelming popularity of PCs and their clones, DOS soon became the operating system on which the majority of BBS programs were run.

Despite the up-or-out system, under President José Sarney the army became top-heavy as generals began to occupy many positions that previously had been reserved for colonels.

After partially recovering from the 1990s crisis, the Bulgarian military became a part of the collective defensive system of NATO.

But during the 1960s faster and more affordable computers became available, and as prices decreased newer computer systems supported time-sharing, a system which allows multiple users or processes to use the CPU and memory.

Charlton became one of the famed Busby Babes, the collection of precociously talented footballers who emerged through the system at Old Trafford in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s as Matt Busby set about a long-term plan of rebuilding the club after the Second World War.

Subsequently, with the passage of the Civil Code of Lower Canada in 1866, Quebec's civil law became entirely statute based, using the civil law system for matters within provincial jurisdiction.

During WWII, an alpine team composed of Pierre Chevalier, Fernand Petzl, Charles Petit-Didier and others explored the Dent de Crolles cave system near Grenoble, France which became the deepest explored cave in the world (- 658m ) at that time.