Only a very few comparable DOSes were stored elsewhere than floppy disks ; among these exceptions were the British BBC Micro's optional Disc Filing System, DFS, offered as a kit with a disk controller chip, a ROM chip, and a handful of logic chips, to be installed inside the computer ; and Commodore's CBM DOS, located in a ROM chip in each disk drive.

Traditionally, " chips " in the British Isles ( and Australia and New Zealand ), are cut much thicker, i. e., are " chipped " from the potatoes and described in some recipes as " chipped potatoes " not simply " chips ", and are typically between 10 and 15 mm ( 3 / 8 – 1 / 2 inches ) wide.

Thick-cut, or beefsteak, British chips are occasionally made from unpeeled potatoes to enhance their flavor and nutritional value and are not necessarily served as crisp as the European French fry due to their relatively high water content.

In Scotland, chips were first sold in Dundee, "... in the 1870s, that glory of British gastronomy – the chip – was first sold by Belgian immigrant Edward De Gernier in the city ’ s Greenmarket.

" Pub grub " expanded to include British food items such as steak and ale pie, shepherd's pie, fish and chips, bangers and mash, Sunday roast, ploughman's lunch, and pasties.

Cod and chips in Horseshoe Bay, West Vancouver, British Columbia | Horseshoe Bay, British Columbia, Canada

Fish and chips at a Hesburger fast food restaurant in Finland, advertised as particularly British

It commonly used as the fish in the classic British dish of fish and chips.

Aided by Arthur Treacher's advertisements, these companies introduced British fish and chips to America.

Sainsbury's, which said the new name was derived from the French for cooked pollock ( colin ), launched the product under the banner " Colin and chips can save British cod.

British traditions persist to varying degrees in domestic cooking and the takeaway food sector, with roast dinners, the Australian meat pie and fish and chips remaining popular, but there are also new elements featured in these foods.

Chips and Gravy (" chips " being the British term for thicker French fries ) is a staple of the cheaper bistro style menus, in such places as Royal Canadian Legion and Workers Clubs, where the food offered would not be considered " fast food " but is still cheap and filling, especially for children.

" Pub grub " expanded to include British food items such as steak and ale pie, steak and kidney pudding, shepherd's pie, fish and chips, bangers and mash, Sunday roast, ploughman's lunch, and pasties.

They are also served with chips as an alternative to fish and chips at British chip shops.

Skipton has many pubs, two nightclubs ( two clubs joined into one building ), and many restaurants ranging from traditional fish and chips to high quality cuisine, taking in modern British, Mexican, Indian, Greek, Chinese and Italian.

Haddock, along with cod and plaice, is one of the most popular fish used in British fish and chips.

The development of trawler fishing in the mid nineteenth century would lead to the development of a British favourite fish and chips, and the first shop in 1860.

These are not to be confused with the British and Australian battered sav, a saveloy deep fried in a wheat flour based batter, as used for fish and chips, which generally does not contain cornmeal.

Pacific Microelectronics Centre ( Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada ) was spun off from Microtel Pacific Research ( the research arm of BC TEL at the time ) to develop ATM and later SONET chips.

A British meal of fish and chips served with mushy peas in the ramekin on the right

Other popular fish snacks are kibbeling ( deep-fried nugget-sized chunks of cod ), lekkerbek ( deep-fried cod, similar to the British Fish and chips, but delicately spiced and with a more tempura-like batter ), gerookte paling ( smoked eel ), and rolmops.

Some years ago Julian Huxley proposed to an audience made up of members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science that `` man's supernormal or extra-sensory faculties are ( now ) in the same case as were his mathematical faculties during the ice age ''.

They emerged as interchangeable cogs in a faulty but formidable machine: shaved nearly naked, hair queued, greatcoated, jackbooted, and best of all -- in the opinion of the British professional, Major Semple-Lisle -- `` their minds are not estranged from the paths of obedience by those smatterings of knowledge which only serve to lead to insubordination and mutiny ''.

I have heard people talk with contempt about the British regulars, but that only proves that a lot of people talk about things of which they are deplorably ignorant.

It truly relives another age for the inhabitants use carriages rather than autos and old British and French forts are left intact for tourists to visit and record.

Likewise, and equally fascinating, is the news that such unlikely synonyms as `` pratakku '', `` sweathruna '', and the tongue-twister `` nnuolapertar-it-vuh-karti-birifw- '' all originated in the same village in Bathar-on-Walli Province and are all used to express sentiments concerning British `` imperialism ''.

The Indians and Pakistanis are chafing under similar restrictions on the British market for similar reasons.

Rather, they are impressed with the British Government's success in forcing -- and helping -- the British textile industry to shrink and to change over to other products.

Many of the coal seams in the nationalized British mines are twisting, narrow and very deep.

The only other regions so blessed are the British Isles, western Europe, eastern China, southern Chile and parts of Japan, New Zealand and Tasmania.

International and domestic services are maintained by TAAG Angola Airlines, Aeroflot, British Airways, Brussels Airlines, Lufthansa, Air France, Air Namibia, Cubana, Ethiopian Airlines, Emirates, Delta Air Lines, Royal Air Maroc, Iberia, Hainan Airlines, Kenya Airways, South African Airways, TAP Air Portugal and several regional carriers.

Much like the relationship between British English and American English, the Austrian and German varieties differ in minor respects ( e. g., spelling, word usage and grammar ) but are recognizably equivalent and largely mutually intelligible.

By the Naturalisation Act 1870, it was made possible for British subjects to renounce their nationality and allegiance, and the ways in which that nationality is lost are defined.

So British subjects voluntarily naturalized in a foreign state are deemed aliens from the time of such naturalization, unless, in the case of persons naturalized before the passing of the act, they have declared their desire to remain British subjects within two years from the passing of the act.

Persons who from having been born within British territory are British subjects, but who at birth became under the law of any foreign state subjects of such state, and also persons who though born abroad are British subjects by reason of parentage, may by declarations of alienage get rid of British nationality.

Almost all of Agatha Christie's books are whodunits, focusing on the British middle and upper classes.

* 1979 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British World War II admiral Louis Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland.

This change is not universal for British English and traditionally is not considered a feature of Received Pronunciation.

British Virgin Islands government publications had traditionally continued to commence with " The Territory of the Virgin Islands ", and passports simply refer to the " Virgin Islands ", and all laws begin with the words " Virgin Islands ".

Because of traditionally close links with the U. S. Virgin Islands, the British Virgin Islands has used the US dollar as its currency since 1959.

While the Scottish Enlightenment is traditionally considered to have concluded toward the end of the 18th century, disproportionately large Scottish contributions to British science and letters continued for another 50 years or more, thanks to such figures as the mathematicians and physicists James Clerk Maxwell, Lord Kelvin, and the engineers and inventors James Watt and William Murdoch, whose work was critical to the technological developments of the Industrial Revolution throughout Britain.

The oak in the song's title refers to the wood from which British warships were traditionally made in the age of sail.

By granting independence to Burma, the British government gave the new ruler, Aung San, control over areas that were not traditionally controlled by the Bamar.

The official rules of the madison, traditionally regarded as being hard to follow, are stated as follows by British Cycling, the British Governing Body of Cycling:

Black tie trousers traditionally have no cuffs ( turn-ups in British English ) or belt loops.

A mince pie, also known as minced pie, is a small British sweet pie traditionally served during the Christmas season.

The Haida and Tlingit tribes, who lived along the coast of southern Alaska and on islands in northwest British Columbia, were traditionally known as fierce warriors, pirates and slave-traders, raiding as far as California.

This provided British traders and smugglers potential inroads into the ( traditionally ) closed markets in Spanish America.

Iranians have traditionally been highly sensitive to foreign interference in their country, pointing to such events as the Russian conquest of northern parts of the country, the tobacco concession, the British and Russian occupations of the First and Second World Wars, and the CIA plot to overthrow Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq.

Certainly, republicanism in Australia has traditionally been supported most strongly by urban working class of Irish Catholic background, whereas monarchism is a core value associated with urban and rural inhabitants of British Protestant heritage and the middle class, to the extent that there were calls in 1999 for 300, 000 exceptionally enfranchised British subjects who were not Australian citizens to be barred from voting on the grounds that they would vote as a loyalist bloc in a tight referendum.

The executive head of an Australian university has traditionally been given the British title Vice-Chancellor, although in recent times the American term President has also been adopted.

The British government has traditionally been wary of large banknotes since the counterfeiting Operation Bernhard in World War II which caused the Bank of England to withdraw all notes larger than £ 5 from circulation, and not reintroduce other denominations until the early 1960s (£ 10 ), 1970 (£ 20 ) and March 20, 1981 (£ 50 ).

British and Irish sausages are normally made from raw pork or beef mixed with a variety of herbs and spices and cereals, many recipes of which are traditionally associated with particular regions ( for example Cumberland sausages ).

Duke of Cornwall is a title in the Peerage of England, traditionally held by the heir to the reigning British monarch.

* University don, in British universities, traditionally, a head, fellow or tutor of a college

The legendary British king Lud may therefore ultimately be derived from Nodens, traditionally associated with the city of London / Londinium ( see Ludgate ).

In 2005, Paisley was made a Privy Counsellor, an appointment traditionally bestowed upon leaders of political parties in the British Parliament.

British public school students were traditionally called " boys ", thus graduated students are " old boys ".

There are 60 Yeomen of the Guard ( plus 6 Officers ), drawn from retired members of the British Army, Royal Marines and Royal Air Force, but traditionally not the Royal Navy, because while members of the other services take oaths to the Crown, members of the Navy take an oath to the Admiralty.